Download or read book Eye on Hong Kong written by Keith Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exclusive travel guide guides the visitor through the most incredible activities to be found in Shanghai: savour the food of world-class chefs in Asia's most romantic two-seater salon; eat at the best holes-in-the-walls and discover local street food haunts; find the best tailors and quality cashmere, satins and brocades by the yard; expert ......

Download or read book Barbarian Eye written by Priscilla Hayter Napier and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightfully written book tells the story of William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier of Merchiston, who was sent to China in 1834, not to stop the opium smuggling (by which all local officials profited hugely), but to seek a settlement between the British sea-traders and the Cantonese authorities. Known at home as a brave and sensible sailor who had started his career at Trafalgar, William John was noted for his calm and patience. He was at once seen by the Chinese authorities as a dangerous spy - a 'Barbarian Eye'. Though biographical in character, based largely upon Lord Napier's own letters and journals, the book gives an admirable insight into the story of Western contacts over the centuries with the world's oldest and surely, most remarkable civilisation and a charming description of life in England and Scotland in the early 19th century, including life in the court of King William IV, Lord Napier's close friend and master.

Download or read book An Eye on Hong Kong written by Keith MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on 28 years of photography by one man to present an essay on the beauty, the colours and textures and the culture of Hong Kong.

Download or read book Hong Kong Eye written by David Ciclitira and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hong Kong Eye written by Saatchi Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to an impressive selection of works of painting, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, photography, this book showcases the best in contemporary Hong Kong art with the aim of promoting awareness of Hong Kong artistic achievement on a worldwide basis

Download or read book Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell Volume 1 written by David Bellis and published by Gwulo. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not your typical photo book! David Bellis, founder of the popular local history website Gwulo, shows you a selection of his favourite photos of old Hong Kong. So far, so familiar. But then he takes you on a deep dive to discover and understand the photos’ most minute and revealing details. Plague-ridden rats (pg. 7), flapper hats (pg. 56), and chocolates (pg. 73) are just a few of the surprising clues you’ll investigate. Finally, David helps you piece the clues together to uncover the photos’ hidden stories.

Download or read book An Eye on Hong Kong written by Keith MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Today Hong Kong Tomorrow the World written by Mark L. Clifford and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a beacon of prosperity where people, money, and technology flowed freely, and residents enjoyed many civil liberties. In preparation for handing the territory over to China in 1997, Deng Xiaoping promised that it would remain highly autonomous for fifty years. An international treaty established a Special Administrative Region (SAR) with a far freer political system than that of Communist China—one with its own currency and government administration, a common-law legal system, and freedoms of press, speech, and religion. But as the halfway mark of the SAR’s lifespan approaches in 2022, it is clear that China has not kept its word. Universal suffrage and free elections have not been instituted, harassment and brutality have become normalized, and activists are being jailed en masse. To make matters worse, a national security law that further crimps Hong Kong’s freedoms has recently been decreed in Beijing. This tragic backslide has dire worldwide implications—as China continues to expand its global influence, Hong Kong serves as a chilling preview of how dissenters could be treated in regions that fall under the emerging superpower’s control. Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World tells the complete story of how a city once famed for protests so peaceful that toddlers joined grandparents in millions-strong rallies became a place where police have fired more than 10,000 rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets and even live ammunition at their neighbors, while pro-government hooligans attack demonstrators in the streets. A Hong Kong resident from 1992 to 2021, author Mark L. Clifford has witnessed this transformation firsthand. As a celebrated publisher and journalist, he has unrivaled access to the full range of the city’s society, from student protestors and political prisoners to aristocrats and senior government officials. A powerful and dramatic mix of history and on-the-ground reporting, this book is the definitive account of one of the most important geopolitical standoffs of our time.

Download or read book Colonial Hong Kong in the Eyes of Elsie Tu written by Elsie Tu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsie Tu is well known as a social activist and crusader against injustice and corruption in Hong Kong. In this powerful personal statement, she expresses her views about the injustices in the past colonial system and her fears about present day economic colonialism. This is a book with strong messages for today. Mrs Tu's deep concerns about the current international scene have the most immediate and obvious topical relevance. But there is an equally strong lesson in her description of the corruption that used to be so pervasive in Hong Kong and her battles against it. She reminds us forcefully of the need for continued vigilance if corruption and its awful effects are not to return. However, the most important message of this book pervades all parts of it: the example of a life devoted to improving things for the ordinary people of Hong Kong, a life not just lived according to high principles, but characterized by a dogged and fearless determination to fight for those principles, to be an activist. This book is important because it records the beliefs, some of the experiences and above all the commitment of one of the most notable people of post-war Hong Kong. By giving rich insights into the mind and beliefs of an extraordinary and indomitable person, it brings to life the recent history of Hong Kong and challenges the next generation of Hong Kong people to contribute as much. Readers may have heard of Hong Kong's economic miracle during the second half of the twentieth century, but they may not be aware of the suffering and injustices caused by greed and corruption at that time. This book shows how the society's struggle stirred the spirit of determination upon which the Hong Kong we know today was built The book will also give readers a bird's eye view of the worldwide scale of suffering and injustices caused by nations seeking economic and political domination. I write this book because I believe that human beings can only comprehend the present when they understand the past, and they can only make a better future when they learn from previous errors. And I feel compelled to alert the younger generation of the dangers that confront the world today from those obsessed with wealth and power. I hope that all prejudices and evil ambitions can be set aside, and an equal playing field can be created for all nations. - Elsie Tu

Download or read book Murder in Room 117 written by Arthur Kent and published by Skywriter Communications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigative account of the February 1979 murder of U.S. Ambassador Adolph "Spike" Dubs, featuring newly unearthed evidence justifying the reopening of the file for forensic reexamination.

Download or read book Through Other Eyes written by Barbara E. Ward and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eye On The World written by Tan Kok Seng and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eye on the World is the third and concluding volume of Tan Kok Seng’s autobiography, where he and his young family go to bustling Hong Kong. He writes with endearing honesty about a place that seems a lot like home, yet is vastly different in many ways, and this affectionate sense of observation is carried through a round-the-world trip he embarks on. Told from the perspective of a Singaporean everyman, Kok Seng’s stories and reflections about the world are told in charmingly simple prose, enriched by his penchant for looking at the people and things around him with eyes wide open.

Download or read book Hong Kong Eye written by Serenella Ciclitira and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discursive Change in Hong Kong written by Jennifer Eagleton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discursive Change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems is an interdisciplinary study of sociopolitical and discursive change in Hong Kong—a westernized Chinese society once under British rule, now decolonized but without independence, and with a constitution promising universal suffrage sometime in the future. Starting off with interesting and frequently contradictory debates surrounding the discussions on the Handover of Hong Kong to mainland China, Jennifer Eagleton provides a stimulating, politically well-informed, and comprehensive “insider” account of many aspects of the press media and official discourse on democracy and political change in Hong Kong as part of “One Country, Two Systems.” The book shows how historical, cultural, and identity issues have shaped and molded post-1997 political discourse and how the seemingly dramatic changes in the city since 2020 may not have been that surprising for long-term observers of Hong Kong. By going beyond consideration of the purely linguistic dimension of the selected texts to encompass the larger historical and socio-political context, and incorporating textual, discursive, and metaphoric analysis over time, this book provides a detailed examination of Hong Kong political discourse and its constituent themes.

Download or read book Advances in Vision Research Volume II written by Gyan Prakash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume continues with a focus on the state of the art in genetic eye research in Asia and the Pacific. Though there has been an explosion of information on genetic eye research in western countries, more than sixty percent of the human genes involved in eye diseases in the Asian and Pacific population remain unknown. However, new efforts and a new awareness have sparked important discussions on the subject, and new plans are being implemented to discover the genes responsible for many eye diseases in the population. The book reviews the latest findings; its content ranges from genetic aspects of human migration to DNA sequence analysis, genome-wide association analysis, and disease phenotypes. The efforts of the Asian Eye Genetic Consortium (AEGC) are also discussed. The book’s editors have been instrumental in developing strategies for discovering the new Asian genes involved in many eye diseases. All chapters were written by leading researchers working on Asian eye genetics from the fields of Human Genetics, Ophthalmology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Sensory Sciences, and Clinical Research. Advances in Vision Research, Volume II will prove to be a major resource for all researchers, clinicians, clinical researchers, and allied eye health professionals with an interest in eye diseases among the Asian population.

Download or read book Over Hong Kong written by Magnus Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cataract Surgery in Diseased Eyes written by Arup Chakrabarti and published by JP Medical Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cataracts are a very common condition and over time can lead to blindness if untreated. They are the most common cause of blindness worldwide. Cataract surgery is one of the most commonly performed procedures. Cataract Surgery in Diseased Eyes presents different surgical techniques to remove cataracts in patients with other pre-existing ocular disorders. Presented as case scenarios, the book covers numerous different conditions including dry eye, uveitis and glaucoma, as well as cataract surgery after other types of eye surgery. With contributions from internationally recognised specialists in Europe, North America and Asia, this useful guide includes more than 200 images, illustrations and tables to enhance learning. Key points Describes cataract surgery techniques for use with other pre-existing eye conditions Presents more than 30 case scenarios covering different disorders Contributions from experts in Europe, North America and Asia Includes more than 200 images, illustrations and tables