Hong: 533 books
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China’s modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness. Frank Dikötter argues that...
Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom
The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting.
Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values
Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility....
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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 Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes...
The Rise of Singapore
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: The Reasons for Singapore's SuccessVolume 2: Reflections on Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental journey in order that young Singaporeans students, visiting tourists and foreigners working in Singapore may be informed about why and how Singapore succeeded, despite tremendous odds. The two volumes...
by Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB)
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
The importance of managing credit and credit risks carefully and appropriately cannot be overestimated. The very success or failure of a bank and the banking industry in general may well depend on how credit risk is handled.
Banking professionals must be fully versed in the risks associated...
by Koh Hong Teng
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Selected by The Business Times as one of the Best Books of 2014 Recommended by the National Library Board, Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information The Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) train that ran between Singapore and Malaysia for almost 80 years was rerouted to Woodlands Train Checkpoint...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 19491976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, and archives, this book ‘gives a voice’ to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that China...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer and...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence...
Kierkegaard's Writings, VII, Volume 7
Philosophical Fragments, or a Fragment of Philosophy/Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est. (Two books in one volume)
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins...
Kierkegaard's Writings, II: The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures
The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J. Schelling, the book is...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XII, Volume I
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical...