Download or read book Defying the Dragon written by Stephen Vines and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in Hong Kong? Why are Beijing's time-honoured means of control no longer working there? And where does this leave Hongkongers themselves?Stephen Vines has lived in Hong Kong for over three decades. His book shrewdly unpacks the Hong Kong-China relationship and its wider significance--right up to the astonishing convergence of political turmoil and international crisis with Covid-19 and the 2020 crackdown.Vividly describing the uprising from street level, Vines explains how and why it unfolded, and its global repercussions. Now, the international community is reassessing relations with Beijing, just as Hong Kong's rebellion and China's handling of the pandemic have exposed the regime's weakness. In a crisis that has become existential all round, what lies ahead for Hong Kong, China and the world?
Download or read book The Dragon and the Crown written by Stanley S.K. Kwan and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his autobiography Stanley S.K. Kwan discusses his roots, Hong Kong after the War, Hang Seng Bank, the new China and home and country.
Download or read book The Dragon Head of Hong Kong written by Ian Hamilton and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prequel to the wildly popular Ava Lee series. Young Ava Lee is a forensic accounting who has just opened her own private firm. One of her clients, Hedrick Lo, has been swindled of more than a million dollars by a Chinese importer named Johnny Kung. Desperate, Lo persuades Ava to find and retrieve the monies owed. Ava goes to Hong Kong, where she plunges into the dangerous underground collection business and meets a man who will forever change her life ...
Download or read book The Dragon of Hong Kong written by Roger Leloup and published by 9th Cinebook. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling to Hong Kong to visit the Chinese branch of her family, Yoko is attacked by a massive, lizard-like creature. She finds a string of scientific clues and evidence which lead her to a mysterious little girl, and a sense of wonder that will change her life forever.
Download or read book The Lion the Dragon written by Mary Craig and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dealing with the Dragon written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dealing with the Dragon presents a fact-filled but always entertaining account - week-by-week, often day-by-day - of Hong Kong in the last year of the millenium, focusing on the crucial political, legal, and human battles that followed Britain's departure. Predictions by some that this Far Eastern center of commerce and finance would be radically changed by its new rulers have proved largely unfounded; forecasts of tanks in the streets, violent clashes, and the disappearance of democracy were unrealistically dire. Fenby, a journalist with an eyewitness's knowledge of the teeming metropolis and the mainland, shows what actually occurred following the Chinese takeover, detailing major developments - such as Beijing's harsh policies over Taiwan and the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong - to which foreign governments, including Washington, have preferred to shut their eyes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Dragon and the Pearl written by Martin Booth and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovely Banner O'Brien overcame every obstacle and won her coveted medical diploma. Still, she longed to escape from Oregon...and the nightmares that left her shaking, screaming one man's name. So Banner fled to the Washington Territory to work with the arrogant and handsome Dr. Adam Corbin. Although Banner respected his skills, she was unnerved by the very nearness of this moody, powerful man. His past was a mystery that would challenge her to the utmost...for Banner was determined to win Adam's heart.-- "A wonderful, sensitive love story that will remain in your heart for a long time". -- Romantic Times
Download or read book Hong Kong written by Simon Winchester and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, the colony of Hong Kong will be ceded to the People's Republic of China. To capture Hong Kong in transition, 11 photojournalists spent two weeks on a shoot in Hong Kong. The result is this book which presents the many cultures and subcultures of a city about to undergo a radical change.
Download or read book Through the Mist written by Jan Abbott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lily and Oscar visit their grandparents in Hong Kong for a holiday, they get more of an adventure than they bargained for. Join them on their fabulous journey aboard the mystical Chinese dragon, Yang, as they discover the history, geography and culture of this colourful country.
Download or read book Dragons written by Leung Ping Kwan and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leung Ping Kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. 'I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,' he wrote of the story 'See Mun and the Dragon' (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story 'Drowned Souls' (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and more complex manner. Although the two stories are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways so very different, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China, symbol of the universal power of the imagination, of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author's idea of freedom and liberation."
Download or read book Tartan Dragon written by John McLean and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragon Head of Hong Kong written by Ian Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hybrid Hong Kong written by Kwok-bun Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybrid Hong Kong attempts to attract and excite the intellectual, cultural, economic and political elites as well as the intelligent laymen of Hong Kong - hopefully enough for them to take a closer look at their society - while engendering a public discourse on the city's identity, its past, present and future. Hong Kong is at its crossroads. With a colonial past and having been handed over, and back, to China in 1997, the city has since been going through a process of re-sinification and re-integration (not entirely wanted) into the Pearl River Delta region of mainland China, all of which have far-reaching consequences for identity politics, culture, loyalty and attachment, and everyday livelihood. The hybridity concept offers an in-between space, and time, to narrate, describe and make sense of the many layers of entanglement of cultural, anthropological, economic and political forces that impinge, impact, sometimes confuse, even disturb, the everyday lives of the Hongkongers who have decided to call the city home. The book probes a range of sites and locales of a Hongkonger's natural habitat, including film and television, ethnicity, popular music videos, gay identities, fashion, art, theatre, Cantopop electronic dance music, museum, visual arts, the Muslim youth, food and cuisine, and Chinese and western medicines. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation, Hybrid Hong Kong intends to display and explain hybridity as it is performed in the public as well as private spheres of city life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology.
Download or read book Follow the Dragon written by John Daniel and published by . This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Hong Kong - 1980. A son returns for his father's funeral and discovers a secret bargain made in WWII between his father and a now aging Chinese billionaire called the Dragon. Derived from true-life events in the war (the British SOE and the BAAG), the lives of the son and the Dragon are threatened by a secret society, a Chinese Triad, as the son's life is forever changed by desperate events in the colony off the coast of China.
Download or read book The Cinema of Hong Kong written by Poshek Fu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.
Download or read book The Dragon King It Was That Died written by Pamela Youde and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dragon King below the Jing River defied the orders of the Jade God of the Heavens and was executed. His ghost resented the Tang Emperor Taizong for not saving him, and dragged the Emperor to the Underworld. What would the Emperor see in the Underworld? Was he able to return to life? My Favourite Chinese Stories is a collection of three Chinese stories specially selected and retold in English for young readers. The first story is from Chinese mythology, while the other two are from classical Chinese literature. They are widely known to the Chinese people, and reflect, in varying degrees, some of the essential characteristics of Chinese culture. Each story is accompanied by beautiful full-colour illustrations drawn by Lo King-man as well as audio narration by the author Pamela Youde.
