Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. This is the first systematic analysis of racial prejudice in China, a complex and sensitive subject almost completely ignored by Chinese and Western scholars. More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. William Slack (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. This work argues that, far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialised senses of belonging have often been the foundation of national identity in 20th-century East Asia. The construction of symbolic boundaries between racial..... More
Armonk, New York: An East Gate Book/M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1988. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Ray Huang (Chinese: 黃仁宇; pinyin: Huáng Rényǔ; 25 June 1918 – 8 January 2000) was a Chinese-American historian and philosopher. He was an officer in the Nationalist army and fought in the Burma campaigns. He earned..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Trade Paperback. A collection of essays by China scholars on politics in and history of modern China. More
Hong Kong: Victionary, 2020. Miss Black Cat 黑貓小姐 (words), Don Mak 麥震東 (story, concept, illustrations). First Edition. Hardcover. A visual memoir like no other, Once Upon A Hong Kong is a stirring collection of personal work by local artist-illustrator Don Mak which captures everyday life in an ever-changing metropolis. Each..... More
Hong Kong: Being Media Ltd, 2020. Summer 2020. Softcover with half-jacket. 本期簡介： 從前夏天是放假和出遊的旺季，但今年夏天，在限聚令下社交距離仍然持續，身心本已疲憊不堪，更多人卻在深思，要走，還是留？在這裡土生土長，如果要放下一切離開，是為了什麼？反過來，又有什麼東西，讓人選擇繼續留在這裡？本期《就係香港》從不同年代香港人如何移居他方的故事身上，體現出一種複雜的，結合了歷史時代、客觀環境和個人價值追求的HongKongness（香港性）。 #REvisitREthinkREcreate// ＿＿ 在他方 百餘年來，除了內地及其他地方的人移居到香港來，香港人在也不斷向外移徙-----在每一次歷史轉折和社會轉型之間，不少人都「用腳投票」，移居海外。尋生活，尋身份，尋自己，「香港式移居」由戰後至今，從來就不止於是一個居所的選擇，而是生存、生活和生命三串一的追求。 #REcall// 哪種護照，哪種身份？ 回顧香港的歷史，香港人曾經使用過各種不同的護照，既意味著香港人國籍身份轉變，反映出香港這座城市的不斷發展，也是香港人今天身份逐步建立的過程。 #REveal// 疏離之間，連結之時 2020年至今的疫情/社交距離和限聚令，令人與人之間變成孤島。導演麥曦茵、插畫家Flyingpig飛天豬、童書創作團隊All Things Bright And Beautiful，還有新進當代水墨畫家沈君怡，卻將此時此刻變成與自己，與他人對話的契機，並用創作分享箇中的體悟。 #REdiscover// 再見，碼頭 2011年停航的中環/紅磡渡輪在近期重開，再次讓人惦記起，這些年間消失了的渡輪航線和碼頭，以及消失中的維港。可有想過，當鐵路和隧道提供了密集和速度，渡輪 或者可以為我們提供多一種生活選擇，讓城市更宜居？ #REsort// 海灘的一天 香港長而彎曲的海岸線，紓緩了海風和海浪的力度，除了颱風季節外，總讓人平靜而安心，也各有歷史和人文風景。但歷年來部分泳灘因為水質下降和海沙流失而被淘汰遺忘，海灘其實也是需要珍惜的自然遺產。 其他精彩內容包括： 本地年輕創作人Stefuuny Yeung和Pearl Law分別以「港產片中的移民情結」和「中餐館：想家的味道」為主題創作插畫； #REframe記錄各地華人移民群像逾50年的香港攝影師劉博智專訪；#REfresh當下香港新世代熱衷露營活動，背後見出社會及經濟結構，以至精神價值的重大轉變；REclaim港大藝術系教授祈大衞四分一世紀的香港公共及個人影像記憶庫，帶你重遊遺忘了的城市景貌；本地90後唱作歌手Serrini的 #ReadingHK； 以及香港攝影工作者李泳麟以英國上一代香港移民為主題的影像故事等。. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A path-breaking study of ordinary Chinese people and how they perceive their lives and opportunities in modern China Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But..... More
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the..... More
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