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Structure, Audience, and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture
East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and …
The Perfect Dictatorship – China in the 21st Century
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 …
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng
Examines and reassesses the life and work of Ming-era poet Ruan Dacheng. The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary …
Dissertation Writing in Practice – Turning Ideas into Text
This book is designed to raise students' awareness of the linguistic features of a postgraduate dissertation/thesis written in English. It deals primarily with the linguistic …
Wartime Macau – Under the Japanese Shadow
It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation despite being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and …
Through the Looking Glass – China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao
The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in …
The Age of Openness – China before Mao
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 …
Merchants of War and Peace – British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War
Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defense of British …
Escape from Hong Kong – Admiral Chan Chak's Christmas Day Dash, 1941
On December 25, 1941, the day of Hong Kong's surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak, the Chinese government's chief agent in Hong Kong, and more than sixty Chinese, British …
The Wolf Economy Awakens
Cross–Dressing in Chinese Opera
Informed by queer and feminist theories, this book offers a critical and historical reinterpretation of theatrical cross-dressing in Chinese culture embodied in various discourses, …