Hong Kong University Press: 180 books

This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China’s public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humour. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes on humour in Chinese life and letters, this...

In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai’s classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and literature...

Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city’s predominantly Chinese population....

Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial...

Previous scholarship on trials of war criminals focused on the legal proceedings with only tacit acknowledgement of the political and social context. Dean Aszkielowicz argues in The Australian Pursuit of Japanese War Criminals, 19431957: From Foe to Friend that the trials of Class B and Class C Japanese...

Ma offers an innovative study of three provocative Chinese directors: Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang. Focusing on the highly stylized and nonlinear configurations of time in each director’s films, she argues that these directors have brought new global respect for Chinese cinema...

By comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Change offers a new organizational perspective on peasant revolutions. Utilizing newly available historical materials in the People’s Republic of China in the reform era, it challenges the...

第二次世界大戰期間的香港故事大都環繞英軍抗敵及在一九四一年聖誕日戰敗的事蹟，但華籍游擊隊在日治時期協助戰俘逃生和營救盟軍飛行員對重挫日軍銳氣所起的重要作用，卻鮮有人提及。這個被忽略的環節正是《東江縱隊》的主題，作者陳瑞璋多次接觸游擊戰參與者，為本書提供了珍貴的資料。...

本書從歷史學、傳播學、廣告學、藝術史、政治宣傳等跨學科研究的視角出發，以報刊雜誌廣告和月份牌廣告畫等視覺圖像為分析對象，集中討論近代中國（包括上海、台灣和舊滿洲）廣告文化的特色，以及日本廣告對近代中國商業文化的影響。主要內容包括：報刊廣告的文化翻譯問題；廣告與商業競爭；南京路四大百貨公司的廣告媒體功能；外來廣告技術的接受和本地化；上海和大阪印刷業的人才交流；女性作為「現代性」的文化符號；以及中國社會主義的政治宣傳藝術。本書有助我們理解商業視覺藝術怎樣創造「東亞現代性」、如何與「殖民主義」和「社會主義」相結合，又如何在地區交流中形成等問題，並提供了嶄新的視點和研究方法。...

本書是關於日本帝國亞太戰爭期間性奴隸制度中國受害者的專著。全書通過十二位中國「慰安婦」倖存者的證言以及豐富的史料和調查實據，揭露了日本侵略軍對眾多女性的殘酷蹂躪，揭示日軍為推進侵略戰爭而有組織、有計劃地設立慰安所的事實。...

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