Patents and Innovation in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Two Systems in One Country Compared, Hardback - ***

This is the first book to offer a detailed account of the relationship between patents and innovation in the unique political context of mainland C...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

DescriptionChinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with "Western" biomedicine. Legitimization o...

Publisher: ACA Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Kerry BrownPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lec...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kevin CarricoNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 22Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on...

A dive into the tumultuous protests in Hong Kong that are forming the identity of a generation

A comprehensive and timely account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, City of the Edge considers the 2019 unrest in ...

This publication provides updates on recent developments in the bond market in Hong Kong, China and highlights developments connected to the bond m...

When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes,...

Compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formatio...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Linking together the nonlinear interactions of heat, light, power and colour, this is a groundbreaking guide to Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Systems ...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Michael SheridanIllustration(s): 16 col platesNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

Challenging celebratory histories of the British legal regime in Hong Kong, this book uses archival sources to revisit political censorship. It sho...

This first edition of South China Sea is the successor to Stephen Davies and Elaine Morgan's Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia, Volume I (Imray). Bu...

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Louisa LimNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 236 x 30Cover...

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This book focuses on some central questions in the continuing debate about success factors in corruption prevention and the efficacy and value of a...

Reducere. Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is one of the most important Chinese classics and has had great influence on Chinese thought. It is r...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book covers the major areas of Hong Kong taxation--profits tax, salaries tax, property tax, personal assessment, and stamp duty, as...

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Reducere. As the world entered the turbulent 1960s, two men, half a world apart, one a doctor and the other a classicist, both foreigners far from home, were...

The book adopts social-legal theories to theorize the institutionalization of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with empirical analysis of share...

Publisher: Text PublishingAuthor(s): Louisa LimNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. This is the compelling story of the life of internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso, Yo-Yo Ma, from the cradle to his entering Harvard University ...

Reducere. In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely auto-didact artists in China endeavored to create artwork tha...

Reducere. Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests rang...

A portrayal of the adult world in Peking of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. The five sequential stories in the volume are con...

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Reducere. The book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu's discipleship with Yang Zhenhai ( 楊真海), one of the last remaining mast...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Michael SheridanNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paper...

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisa...

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The first of its kind, Coffee and Wine is a comprehensive study and comparison of the growing, producing, marketing and consumption of the two beve...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Chris PattenNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdIllustration(s): 272 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 218 x 35Co...

Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other...

The Kung Fu series, a set of learning material on the Chinese language, is the product of collaborative efforts of experts from mainland China, Hon...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): See Kam TanIllustration(s): 21 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 368Collection: Edinbu...

Four years of fear: escapes, resistance, internment, occupation and finally - liberation. Philip Cracknell brings his unrivalled knowledge of Hong ...

Reducere. How can one of the world's most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian...

DescriptionThis book gives an account of Hong Kong's medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how ...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Malcolm JackIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 27C...

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

Bringing together a team of cutting-edge researchers based in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific countries, this book focuses on the tug of war bet...

Reducere. ?Iron Ox contains chapters 63-90 of the original and can be divided into four main sections. The first of these is very much concerned with the que...

Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between th...

By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940), Eugenia Lean illustrate...