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      • Grounded at Kai Tak
        April 2022

        Grounded at Kai Tak

        Chinese Aircraft Impounded in Hong Kong, 1949–1952

        by Malcolm Merry

        Set against the backdrop of regional and international post–Second World War tensions, Grounded at Kai Tak is the most comprehensive account of the complex legal struggle for ownership of 71 airplanes belonging to the two main Chinese airlines, which were stranded at Kai Tak airfield in Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese civil war. The resulting contest for possession of them took place in the courts and among politicians and diplomats on three continents. In the process, the struggle became entangled with the anti-communist policies of the United States in the emerging ‘Cold War’, British hopes for restoration of her pre-war commercial position in China, disagreements between nations about recognition of the new government in Peking, and the delicate balance that the colonial government of Hong Kong had to keep to preserve that colony’s interests. Merry tells the tale of this legal saga by weaving together archival documents and news reports of the day, revealing the international alignments that emerged from the aftermath of the wars and the colourful cast of actors that influenced the outcome of the dispute. This struggle would go on to become one of the leading public international law cases on the recognition of governments at the time.

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      • More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
        March 2022

        More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment

        A Personal Narrative

        by Chaloner Grenville Alabaster. Edited by David St Maur Sheil, Kwong Chi Man, and Tony Banham

        More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking British officials during the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned by the Japanese at the Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945. During his internment, he managed to keep a diary of his life in the camp in small notebooks and hid them until his release in 1945. He then wrote his wartime journal on the basis of these notes. The journal records his day-to-day experiences of the fall of Hong Kong, his time at Stanley, and his eventual release. Some of the most fascinating extracts cover the three months immediately after the fall of Hong Kong and when Alabaster and his colleagues were imprisoned in Prince’s Building in Central and before they were sent to the camp, a period little covered in previous publications. Hence, the book is an important primary source for understanding the daily operation of the Stanley Internment Camp and the camp’s environment. Readers will also learn more about the daily life of those imprisoned in the camp, and C. G. Alabaster’s interaction with other prisoners there.

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      • The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng
        March 2022

        The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng

        Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China

        by Alison Hardie

        The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan’s literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognised since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact on the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China.

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      • Searching for Sweetness
        March 2022

        Searching for Sweetness

        Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho

        by Sarah Hanisch

        Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the backdrop of China’s national struggle for modernity and globalisation, Sarah Hanisch examines Chinese migrant women’s complex and ever-shifting struggles for upward social mobility across different generations and localities in China and Lesotho. Embedding the women’s individual portraits into larger historical contexts, Hanisch illustrates how these women interpret and narrate their migratory and everyday experiences through and beyond powerful state metanarratives on ‘sweetness’ and ‘bitterness’. In her exploration of migratory identities and projects that have been overlooked by previous studies, Hanisch brings uniquely gendered, multi-sited, and intergenerational perspectives to existing scholarship on Chinese internal and international migration.

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      • Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar
        March 2022

        Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar

        Origins and Evolution, Second Edition

        by John Greenwood

        Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar covers the origins of the city’s currency crisis in 1983, the initial resolution of the crisis by creation of a traditional currency board, the subsequent problems leading to the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, and the later reforms. A new final chapter traces monetary developments in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2020. This valuable compendium of articles, originally written in the bimonthly journal Asian Monetary Monitor between 1981 and 1989, includes the key article that formed the basis for the Hong Kong government’s decision in 1983 to peg the currency to the US dollar, as well as other important documents of historical record. The main contribution of the book is its detailed monetary analysis of Hong Kong’s unique financial system before and after the currency crisis of 1983. The book explains the collapse of the floating Hong Kong dollar under the pressure of capital outflows during the Sino-British negotiations (1982–84) over the future of Hong Kong, the fascinating story of the introduction of the linked rate system pegging the Hong Kong dollar to the US dollar, and the subsequent gradual process of reform and refinement of the currency board mechanism (1988–2020). Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar will enable readers to obtain a comprehensive picture of why the linked rate system was put in place, how it works, and how it has been strengthened over the years. The second edition extends the discussion to 2020.

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      • The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature
        December 2021

        The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature

        by Edited by Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang

        In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies. In addition to a critical mapping of the domains of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese to delineate the nuanced differences of these three disciplines, the book addresses the issues of translation, genre, and the impact of media and technology on our understanding of “literature” and “literary prestige.” It also provides critical studies of the complicated ways in which Chinese and Sinophone literatures are translated, received, and reinvested across various genres and media, and thus circulate as world literature. The issues taken up by the contributors to this volume promise fruitful polemical interventions in the studies of world literature from the vantage point of Chinese and Sinophone literatures.

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      • New Asian Disorder
        December 2021

        New Asian Disorder

        Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century

        by Edited by Lowell Dittmer

        In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a new set of global financial institutions and replacing “universal values” with technologically enhanced nationalism. The country’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is also tainted by the vast ambition to realize the “China Dream” within the foreseeable future. In response to China’s challenge, the United States has abandoned its “constructive engagement” policy towards the rising power and engaged in a trade war. Sino-American relations have been at a historical trough since the normalization of their relationship in the late 1970s. This book sheds new light on the current political disorder in the East Asian international arena. The new Asian disorder is analyzed from three perspectives: the first focuses on identity, the second on political economy, and the third on the triangular dynamic. This collection of essays concludes that, unless and until consensus can be reached on a coherent new framework for cooperation and rule enforcement among different stakeholders in East Asia, the current disorder may be expected to persist.

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      • Integrated Systematic Nephrology, Fourth Edition
        December 2021

        Integrated Systematic Nephrology, Fourth Edition

        by Edited by Desmond Yap, Tak Mao Chan, and Man Kam Chan

        The clinical practice of nephrology is intricately related to many medical disciplines and is a challenging subject for medical undergraduates and young clinicians alike. Integrated Systematic Nephrology is a clinical reference book that provides a comprehensive yet succinct and systematic coverage of topics in nephrology. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to cover recent advances in nephrology clinical practice and research, and has been expanded to include a vast array of subjects that are crucial to anyone interested in learning about the latest developments in renal medicine more broadly. This volume brings together contributions from highly experienced nephrologists, as well as leading specialists in related disciplines such as urology, radiology, pathology, and others. It is suitable for a wide audience, ranging from undergraduates, general physicians, to nephrology trainees.

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      • Queering Chinese Kinship
        December 2021

        Queering Chinese Kinship

        Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China

        by Lin Song

        What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family.   Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and underground. Shedding light on the representations of queerness and kinship in independent and subcultural as well as commercial and popular cultural products, the book presents a more comprehensive picture of queerness and kinship in flux and highlights queer politics as an integral part of contemporary Chinese public culture.

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      • 願陪着你
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        願陪着你

        從遺書中尋找預防自殺的啟示

        by 葉兆輝、張鳳儀 編

        在過去二十年，香港不幸地有約二萬人死於自殺，受影響的遺屬可能超過十數萬人。我們一直堅守「尊重生命，自殺輕生者一個都嫌多」的使命，透過與遺屬的接觸，以及研讀逝者遺下的說話，努力尋找可預防自殺的方法，盼望與讀者並肩作戰，一同成為身邊人的守護者，跟他們承諾「願陪着你」，陪伴彼此面對生命的挑戰。   這是一本助人自助的務實手冊，運用數據分析和闡述了香港過去二十年的自殺情況，並透過改編故事，展示了與自殺事件有關的啟示，為防止自殺工作奠下基礎。

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      • Reflected Beauty 鏡花薈萃
        March 2022

        Reflected Beauty 鏡花薈萃

        Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection 梅林珍藏的中國玻璃畫

        by Rupprecht Mayer 梅儒佩; edited by Ben Chiesa

        Reverse paintings on glass occupy a special place in Chinese art, spanning the genres of glass working, export art, folk art, erotica, and meiren hua (paintings of beauties). Their unique appearance is the result of a challenging production process in which artists layer pigments in the reverse order of the normal painting procedure–highlights first, then mid-layers, and finally base colours. The final product is viewed in reverse from the opposite side of the glass, which must also be considered when creating the paintings.    A product of the encounter between East and West, the manufacture of glass paintings in China was stimulated by European glass paintings brought to the imperial court by traders and diplomats in the seventeenth century. Initially made in Canton for Western consumers, by the eighteenth century their production had spread throughout China, with subjects and styles adapted to suit local tastes.     The glass paintings in the Mei Lin Collection represent this later flowering of works for the domestic market. Largely ignored by scholars and collectors in favour of exoticized paintings for the West, they depict romantic landscapes, traditional motifs of happiness, scenes from plays and novels, and the changing image of the Chinese woman, demonstrating the diverse appeal of this unique and fragile art form.   The reverse glass paintings presented in this publication and its accompanying exhibition are all from the Mei Lin Collection. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, it is one of the world’s most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection was assembled by Mr. Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Ms Liem Haitang. Parts of the collection have been shown in the City Museum of Augsburg, Germany, and in the Swiss Glass Museum in Romont, Switzerland.   呈現在玻璃上的反向繪畫在中國藝術中佔有特殊的地位，涵蓋了玻璃加工、出口藝術、民間藝術、色情藝術和美人畫等類別。它們獨特的外觀源自充滿挑戰性的生產過程。在該過程中，畫家必須顛倒正常繪畫的順序，以表裏倒序的步驟一層層上色：首先勾勒重點表層，然後畫出中層，最後才填上背景。觀者將會從玻璃的另一面觀賞製作成果，這一點是畫家作畫時必須考慮的要素。   十七世紀的商人和外交官向中國宮廷引入歐洲玻璃畫，為中國玻璃畫的製作帶來了契機，使其成為了象徵東西方相遇的產物。玻璃畫最初是在廣州生產，消費對象為西方的顧客群，但到了十八世紀，當地生產的玻璃畫已經遍跡整個中國，其主題和風格也隨之出現變化來迎合本土的品味。   梅林收藏中的作品代表了玻璃畫後來在國內市場的蓬勃發展。它們被只一昧地關注為滿足外國客人的「異國風情」外銷畫的學者和收藏家所忽略。玻璃畫主要描繪浪漫的風景、寓意萬福吉祥的傳統圖案、戲劇和小說中的場景以及中國女性形象的轉變，充份展現了這種獨特而精緻脆弱的藝術品賦有的多樣魅力。   於本書收錄及其相關展覽展出的玻璃畫全選自梅林收藏。它是由在1968年至2012年間在東亞地區搜求羅致的一百多件作品組成，以來自十九世紀後期和二十世紀的中國玻璃畫來說，是世界上最首屈一指的收藏之一。該收藏是由梅儒佩先生與其夫人林海棠建立而成。部分收藏曾於德國奧格斯堡城市博物館和瑞士羅蒙的瑞士玻璃博物館中展出。

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      • High Gothic 哥德盛世
        December 2021

        High Gothic 哥德盛世

        Christian Art & Iconography of the 13th–14th Century 十三至十四世紀的基督宗教藝術與圖像

        by Edited by Florian Knothe and Tullia C. Fraser 羅諾德、韋莉雅 編

        High Gothic: Christian Art & Iconography of the 13th–14th Century showcases classic examples of statuary, stained glass, diptychs, textiles and caskets that were used in the expression of Christian devotion in Western Europe. ‘Gothic’ was originally a derogatory term coined by scholars during the Renaissance to describe the ‘barbaric’ medieval architecture that arose with the decline of the classical forms of the Roman Empire. The word is now understood to describe a style of buildings and objects created between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries which incorporate elements such as novel advances in masonry work and the characteristic ogival arch. The Gothic period saw an increased emphasis on the power of images, where vision became an active force for activating emotion and inspiring contemplation. The great cathedrals constructed in this period—with their thin walls and high vaults filled with statuary and stained-glass windows—were designed to evoke awe among visitors. The exquisite Gothic objects featured in the McCarthy Collection represent a broad spectrum of workshops and styles across Western Europe, dating from between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, all of which contributed to the splendour we now associate with the aesthetic of the High Gothic. 《哥德盛世：十三至十四世紀的基督宗教藝術與圖像》呈現一批於西歐製作，展現基督教信仰的精選收藏，包括雕像、彩繪玻璃、雙聯畫、紡織品和匣子。 「哥德」一詞源自文藝復興期的學者，用以描述在羅馬帝國古典時期衰落與文藝復興時期興起之間的「野蠻式」建築，原意帶貶義。這個詞彙現指十二至十五世紀之間所建成的建築物與物品，以嶄新的石工雕塑技術和尖形拱門為主要特徵。 哥德時期十分重視圖像的力量，並深信視覺刺激有著可以挑起强烈情感和發人深省的能力。在此時期所建成的大教堂擁有較薄的石墻，高聳的肋架拱頂下充滿了雕像和彩繪玻璃，而這些特色專門為引起訪客的敬畏而設計。麥卡錫蒐藏的哥德珍品包含了西歐各國十三至十四世紀的工藝作坊作品與藝術風格，這些琳琅滿目的藝術品全都體現了哥德盛世的輝煌。

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      • Yinggelishi
        December 2021

        Yinggelishi

        Jonathan Stalling’s Interlanguage Art

        by Jonathan Stalling; edited by Chen Wang

        Jonathan Stalling’s experimental approach to bridging art, poetics, and linguistics imagines a world where individual value systems are no longer translated into the language of other mediums, but foster conscious “interlanguages.” Stalling writes, “Meeting in the middle, ‘interlanguages’ are spaces where one learns a new language without having left one’s home fully behind; these situations can result in richly generative interlingual and intercultural estuaries which provide new ways of imagining.” Stalling’s conceptual language art fuses Classical Chinese poetics and linguistics with modern algorithms to create art installations and poetry that transform Chinese into English and English into Chinese in new and surprising ways. With a visual gallery of Stalling’s work, an interview with the artist, a critical introduction by the editor, and critical chapters written by the comparative literature scholar Timothy Billings and Chinese Linguist Liu Nian, the volume provides readers with a significant introduction to a wide range of Stalling’s interlanguage work spanning the past two decades. The volume runs from the late 1990s English Jueju project to his most recent work Song Dynasty English, a series of movable wood-type printing presses and prints, to Pinying, a series of digital interlanguage learning environments and platforms. Challenging powerful dichotomies like East/West, Chinese/English, Modern/Ancient, and Art/Technology, Stalling’s work opens up new ways of hearing, speaking, and performing cultural ways of knowing through English and Chinese. Chen Wang argues that Stalling’s interlanguage not only opens a space between languages, but may well mark the beginning of an interlanguage domain between humans and machines.

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      • Essentials of Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Construction Professionals
        April 2022

        Essentials of Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Construction Professionals

        by Edited by Gary Soo and Peter Cheng

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