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Androgyny

雌雄同體

By: Chow Yiu Fai

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This pocketsized paperback is one of the twentyfour titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22–26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "ncient Enmity". Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

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The Chinese University Press

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9882370330

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9789882370333

Hong Kong Cantopop

A Concise History

By: Yiu-Wai Chu

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Hong Kong Cantopop

A Concise History

By: Yiu-Wai Chu

Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the emergence of a Hong Kong identity and consciousness. Chu charts the fortune of this important genre of twentieth-century Chinese music from its humble, lower-class origins in the 1950s to its rise to a multimillion-dollar business in the mid-1990s. As the voice of Hong Kong, Cantopop has given generations of people born in the city a sense of belonging. It was only in the late 1990s, when transformations in the music industry, and more importantly, changes in the geopolitical situation of Hong Kong, that Cantopop showed signs of decline. As such, Hong Kong Cantopop: A Concise History is not only a brief history of Cantonese pop songs, but also of Hong Kong culture. The book concludes with a chapter on the eclipse of Cantopop by Mandapop (Mandarin popular music), and an analysis of the relevance of Cantopop to Hong Kong people in the age of a dominant China. Drawing extensively from Chinese-language sources, this work is a most informative introduction to Hong Kong popular music studies. “Few scholars I know of have as thorough a knowledge of Cantopop as Yiu-Wai Chu. The account he provides here—of pop music as a nexus of creative talent, commoditized culture, and geopolitical change—is not only a story about postwar Hong Kong; it is also a resource for understanding the term ‘localism’ in the era of globalization.” —Rey Chow, Duke University “Yiu-Wai Chu’s book presents a remarkable accomplishment: it is not only the first history of Cantopop published in English; it also manages to interweave the sound of Cantopop with the geopolitical changes taking place in East Asia. Combining a lucid theoretical approach with rich empirical insights, this book will be a milestone in the study of East Asian popular cultures.” —Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888390589

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9789888390588

Found in Transition

Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China

By: Yiu-Wai Chu

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Found in Transition

Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China

By: Yiu-Wai Chu

In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu examines the fate of Hong Kong's unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and the increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent developments, especially with respect to language, movies, and popular songs as modes of resistance to "Mainlandization" and different forms of censorship, Chu explores the challenges facing Hong Kong twenty years after its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region. Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of interpretation, he also attempts to imagine the future of Hong Kong by utilizing Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues that the study of Hong Kong—the place where the impact of the rise of China is most intensely felt—can shed light on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such, this book represents a consequential follow-up to the author's Lost in Transition and a valuable contribution to international, area, and cultural studies.

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State University of New York Press

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143847170X

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Caring in Times of Precarity

A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai

By: Chow Yiu Fai

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Caring in Times of Precarity

A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai

By: Chow Yiu Fai

Caring in Times of Precarity draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers. Straddling this historical juncture, the book focuses on one particular group of ‘precariat’: single women in Shanghai in various forms of creative (self-)employment. While negotiating their share of the uncanny creative work ethos, these women also find themselves interpellated as shengnü (‘left-over women’) in a society configured by a mix of Confucian values, heterosexual ideals, and global images of womanhood. Following these women’s professional, social and intimate lives, the book refuses to see their singlehood and creative labour as problematic, and them as victims. It departs from dominant thinking on precarity, which foregrounds and critiques the contemporary need to be flexible, mobile, and spontaneous to the extent of (self-)exploitation, accepting insecurity. The book seeks to understand– empirically and specifically–women’s everyday struggles and pleasures. It highlights the up-close, everyday embodied, affective, and subjective experience in a particular Chinese city, with broader, global resonances well beyond China. Exploring the limits of the politics of precarity, the book proposes an ethics of care.

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Springer

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3319768980

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Androgyny

雌雄同體

By: Chow Yiu Fai

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雌雄同體

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Congenital and Paediatric Acquired Heart Disease in Practice

By: Yiu-fai Cheung

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Congenital and Paediatric Acquired Heart Disease in Practice

By: Yiu-fai Cheung

This book provides concise, practical, and up-to-date information on congenital and acquired heart disease in children. Thirty-eight congenital cardiovascular malformations, 9 acquired cardiovascular conditions, physiology unique to congenital heart disease, 10 common postoperative issues, and topical issues including COVID-19 and the heart and lymphatic disorders and interventions in congenital heart patients are included. Each chapter is in the reader-friendly format, covering aetiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, investigations, and management approach of congenital and paediatric acquired heart disease by incorporation of coloured figures, tables, and boxes. It will equip medical undergraduates and trainees in paediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiac intensive care, and cardiac nursing staff with up-to-date knowledge and practical skills to manage and to care for children with congenital and acquired heart disease.

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Springer Nature

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9819928621

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Sonic Multiplicities

Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of Sound and Image

By: Yiu Fai Chow,Jeroen de Kloet

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Sonic Multiplicities

Hong Kong Pop and the Global Circulation of Sound and Image

By: Yiu Fai Chow,Jeroen de Kloet

Sonic Multiplicities is a fascinating book, with essays rich in empirical detail and - captivatingly combining the personal and the theoretical - evocative of the complexities of experience, desire and politics in our perplexingly mobile and entangled world. The book's focus on Hong Kong pop music as part of a translocal, if not global network of flows provides a starting point for the authors to unsettle received notions of Chineseness, place and identity, of particular importance in a time when we need to come to terms with, and resist, the increasingly stifling discourse of "the rise of Ch.

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Intellect (UK)

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1783200049

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Caring in Times of Precarity

A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai

By: Chow Yiu Fai

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A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai

By: Chow Yiu Fai

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It’s My Party

Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong

By: Yiu Fai Chow,Jeroen de Kloet,Leonie Schmidt

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It’s My Party

Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong

By: Yiu Fai Chow,Jeroen de Kloet,Leonie Schmidt

This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural studies scholars, scholars of Hong Kong, and those who study the arts in East Asia.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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9819967090

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