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New International Commercial Courts
Over the past two decades, various jurisdictions around the world have created new specialised domestic courts to manage international commercial disputes. Located in the Gulf …
American and Chinese-Language Cinemas
Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction …
Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment
Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment is a collection of articles that shed light on different aspects of university education in China since the late nineteenth century and …
Singapore Private International Law
There has been significant reform in Singapore private international law in recent years. Developments such as the establishment of the Singapore International Commercial Court, …
Resisting Barriers to Belonging
Decades of theory, research, and practice have singled out sense of belonging (in its many derivative forms) as a pivotal component of healthy development: psychologically, …
Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003
Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this …
Life and Moral Education in Greater China
Arguing for life, moral and values education as a bedrock for the original goals of school education, this monograph explores how life and values education is conceptualised and …
The Cold War and Asian Cinemas
This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict. It situates the global ideological rivalry within …
A Documentary History of Public Health in Hong Kong
The publication of this book marks the fifteenth anniversary of the outbreak of SARS epidemic in Hong Kong in 2003. This documentary study, originating as a research project a year …
Trusts and Private Wealth Management
There has been insufficient literature focusing on the world-changing rise of Asian wealth. Private wealth in Asia is very substantial, with 33 per cent of the global population of …
Interrogating the Language of "Self" and "Other" in the History of Modern Christian Mission
This book offers a critical analysis of the use of language in mission studies. Language and Christian missionary activity intersect in complicated ways to objectify the other in …
Truth-Telling and Other Ecclesial Practices of Resistance
In this book, leading American Lutheran theologians, inspired by the Scandinavian emphasis on theology as embodied practice, ask how Christian communities might be mobilized for …