Hong Kong Books


City of Darkness - Life In Kowloon City Best Price: $85.00 I hate to do this, but other buyers should be aware: I have the July 2005 printing (paperback;...	City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong Best Price: $11.74 Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative...	Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood Best Price: $3.84 GOLDEN BOY, Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood By Martin Booth Picador Press \|(St. Martins)...	A Modern History of Hong Kong Best Price: $24.71 This history is well balanced, thoroughly researched and very readable. It covers the period...	VideoHound's Dragon: Asian Action & Cult Flicks Best Price: $12.96 I've gone through this fun book repeatedly as great guide to remind me of films I want to watch...



Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions Best Price: $28.95 If you're looking for true insight into the development of Hong Kong cinema, be sure to check...	A Concise History of Hong Kong (Critical Issues in History) Best Price: $22.46 John Carroll's engrossing and accessible narrative explores the remarkable history of Hong Kong...	Hong Kong Action Cinema Realizing (again) that i don't have to settle for american crud, i dug this book out and...	King Hu's A Touch of Zen (The New Hong Kong Cinema) Best Price: $12.21 A Touch of Zen is one of the first Chinese-language films to gain recognition in an...	The Li Dynasty: Hong Kong Aristocrats Best Price: $39.95 This book chronicles the Li family of Hong Kong, whose members have been prominent for five...



China Modern Best Price: $19.95 This book is at the cutting-edge of today's modern Chinese interior design. The selection of the...	Hong Kong Best Price: $4.99 At least one of the reviewers on this list was unkind about the book, but I think it only fails,...	Ecocells: Landscapes and Masterplans by Hamzah & Yeang Best Price: $3.98 The ecocell is a vertical integrating device to bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater,...	Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Public Worlds, V. 2) Best Price: $15.95 An inventive look at localist twists and practices in cinema, literature, urban space, within...	Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy (New Hong Kong Cinema) Best Price: $13.32 Infernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous...

Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment Best Price: $29.50 Since John Woo and Jackie Chan hit it big in North America, there have been a ton of books on...	Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong Best Price: $39.50 This is a brilliant account of the emergence of particular identities and social structures in...	A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong Best Price: $15.15 This book provides a good source for the origins of Hong Kong and tells a fascinating story. It...	Hong Kong: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) Best Price: $6.78 Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or...	Wong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series) Best Price: $14.79 "The Ashes of Time" has evolved into a kind of cult movie in Hong Kong. While being...

Government and People in Hong Kong 1841-1962: A Constitutional History Best Price: $29.30	Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series) Best Price: $12.99 Finally, there is a book - not a chapter or paragraph - solely one of the Wong Kar Wai's movie....	John Woo's a Better Tomorrow (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series) Best Price: $10.00 A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes...	Tsui Hark's Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series) Best Price: $14.89 Hong Kong cinema exploded into world culture during the 1990s, driven by its link with...	Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong The establishment and development of the Chinese Christian community in Hong Kong during the...

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation Best Price: $3.98 Philip Snow's The Fall of Hong Kong paints a vivid picture of Hong Kong society in the leadup to...	The Turning of the Tide: Religion in China Today Undoubtedly, the greatest problem facing religion in China today is the fundamentally...	Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging I was drawn to this book originally for all of the fascinating stories it told about traditional...	An Illustrated History of Hong Kong As the British rule in Hong Kong draws to a close after a century and a half, the colony remains...	Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand (Routledgecurzon/City University of Hong Kong South East Asia Series) Best Price: $175.12 In this book the Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in...

Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: Evolution of a Subregional Economy (Csis Significant Issues Series) Best Price: $11.00 The emergence of subregional economies--"natural economic territories"--raises serious...	Full Circle: A Life with Hong Kong and China Best Price: $31.99 Full Circle is the story of a life transformed by long exposure to the people and culture of...	Hong Kong: The Road to 1997 Best Price: $17.79 Roger Buckley's book will be essential reading for all those interested in the remarkable...	The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997: A Complete Reference to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios Best Price: $74.95 To get the bad out of the way: it's expensive, there are no pictures, and the cover leaves...	Hong Kong: Hong Kong the Way It Was Best Price: $47.52 Everytime when I read his book, I know how much he loved the world and took care of people &...

Once Upon a Time in China Best Price: $3.53 Perhaps the best place to read a good overview of Asian film for a beginner. It also helps that...	Hollywood East: Hong Kong Movies and the People Who Made Them Best Price: $6.00 If the films of Jackie Chan and Jet Li have just gotten you interested in Hong Kong cinema, then...	Hong Kong in Chinese History Best Price: $2.43 -- Hugh D. R. Baker, Asian Affairs	Hong Kong Comics Best Price: $10.00 Many little images and no many words. It's a interesting book, but could be better.	I Sailed with Chinese Pirates Best Price: $69.95 In the late 1920s, gangs of ruthless and heavily armed pirates plagued the Pearl River delta in...

The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures) Best Price: $11.23 Case studies of the post-war economic development of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and...	Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform Best Price: $31.95 This well-written and thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of the...	At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World Best Price: $23.50 Film/Asian Studies An original and incisive account of one of the world's most exciting...	At the Hong Kong Movies: 600 Reviews from 1988 Till the Handover Best Price: $4.37 I found the book extemely useful as a reference, particularly since the credits are in both...	Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema Best Price: $17.22 Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world’s most popular...

The Structure of Chinese Rural Society: Lineage and Village in the Eastern New Territories, Hong Kong (East Asian Historical Monographs) This book is a detailed study of the social history of a portion of the New Territories of Hong...	The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru: Britain's Forgotten Wartime Tragedy Best Price: $28.20 Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an...	EMPIRES END: A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong Best Price: $5.75 At one time almost all of the countries of East Asia - over half of the world's population if...	The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation: Volume 1, The Hongkong Bank in Late Imperial China 1864-1902: On an Even Keel (History of ... and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Vol 1) This third volume of a four-volume history of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation...	Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong: Photographs & Impressions 1946-47 Best Price: $38.12 In September 1946 the photographer Hedda Morrison arrived in Hong Kong, where she lived for six...

Travellers' Tales of Old Hong Kong and the South China Coast	The Four Asian Tigers: Economic Development & the Global Political Economy Best Price: $54.95 This book critically examines the geopolitical and economic contexts of the region's...	Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self Best Price: $94.97 Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work...	Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender Best Price: $19.95 Some of the articles are well written but others are very repetitious and not rich in analysis. ...	Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Best Price: $18.00 While there are regrettably few definitive one-volume accounts of the imperialist foreign rape...

City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future Best Price: $13.50	We Deserve Better: Hong Kong Since 1997 Best Price: $15.66 Having read the blog for several years, I was anticipating an interesting read. Unfortunately,...	Capitalist Development and Economism in East Asia: The Rise of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea (Routledge Studies in Growth Economies of Asia) Best Price: $170.13 Taking a conceptual approach, this book studies the economic development of the four East Asian...

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