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CHANG, Jing Jing. 2019. Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press

Jing Jing Chang’s book focuses on how post-war Hong Kong cinema’s fate and fortunes, circa 1950s-late 1960s, were inextricably bound up with the context of…

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Chinese Engagement Abroad in the Scrap Business

Introduction Since the late 2010s, discussions on the transnational trade in recyclable waste tend to centre on China. In particular, the announcement by the Chinese…

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Edito – Global China Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative

In the past few years, China’s increasing assertiveness on the international stage has made headlines all over the world, causing considerable discussion and concern among…

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VEG, Sebastian (ed.). 2019. Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

In the shadow of the cultural and anthropological turns, recent historical scholarship on the Mao era (1949-1976) has manifested an interest in “everyday life,” rituals…

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HO, Ming-sho. 2019. Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

With Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven, Ming-sho Ho provides one of the most comprehensive accounts of two major social movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong….

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KENDALL, Paul. 2019. The Sounds of Social Space: Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

I first visited the southwestern Chinese city of Kaili 凱里 in 1987. At that time, the city, with its many secretive Third Front factories, was…

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GROSE, Timothy. 2019. Negotiating Inseparability in China. The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

The institution of the Xinjiang Class (neidi Xinjiang gaozhongban 內地新疆高中班) was introduced in China in 2000. Based on the Tibetan model (neidi Xizang gaozhongban 內地西藏高中班),…

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Poverty Alleviation in China: The Rise of State-Sponsored Corporate Paternalism

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Visual Encounters in Global Shanghai. On the Desirability of Bodies in a Coworking Space

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The Road Home: Rebellion, the Market and Masculinity in the Han Han Phenomenon

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