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  • Political Censorship in British Hong Kong

    Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997)

    by Michael Ng ...
    Series series Law in Context
    Drawing on archival materials, Michael Ng challenges the widely accepted narrative that freedom of expression in Hong Kong is a legacy of British rule of law. Demonstrating that the media and schools were pervasively censored for much of the colonial period and only liberated at a very late stage of British rule, this book complicates our understanding of how Hong Kong came to be a city that ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Constitutional Foundings in Northeast Asia

    Edited by Dr Kevin YL Tan, Michael Ng ...
    Series series Constitutionalism in Asia
    This new book in the Constitutionalism in Asia series considers the idea of origins, and of change and continuity in terms of 'constitution-making', which is an on-going process in the Northeast Asian states.The book examines the drafting, nature, core values, and roles of the first modern constitutions during the founding of the 8 modern states/territories in Northeast Asia: China (1949), Taiwan ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order

    Adoption and Adaptation

    Edited by Yun Zhao, Michael Ng ...
    This volume critically evaluates the latest legal reform of China, covering major areas such as trade and securities law, online privacy law, criminal law, human rights and international law. It represents a bold departure from the most recent works on Chinese legal reform by engaging the ideas of experts in contemporary Chinese law with the archival scholarship of Chinese legal historians. This ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • how to construct a transformer

    7 easy steps to construct a diy transformer

    by michael ng ...
    this tutorial walks you through a step by step guide to construct a transformer from the scratch even without any technical knowledge/background. it is very simple for anyone who can read and understand. the tutorial is straight to the point and guarantees that you will understand the whole procedure with ease and master it.     ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Civil Unrest and Governance in Hong Kong

    Law and Order from Historical and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by John Wong, Michael Ng ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Law
    This book examines important social movements in Hong Kong from the perspectives of historical and cultural studies. Conventionally regarded as one of the most politically stable cities in Asia, Hong Kong has yet witnessed many demonstrations and struggles against the colonial and post-colonial governments during the past one hundred years. Many of these movements were brought about in the name of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • A Concise History of Hong Kong

    by John M. Carroll ...
    When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose a city that continues to intrigue observers. Melding Chinese and Western influences, Hong Kong has long defied easy categorization. John M. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Age of Openness

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China’s modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness. Frank Dikötter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Guilty of Indigence

    The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953

    by Janet Y. Chen ...
    In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hong Kong's History

    State and Society Under Colonial Rule

    Edited by Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, legal discrimination and intimidation, rural politics, social movements, government-business relations, industrial policy, flexible manufacturing and colonial historiography. Drawing together ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Like Cattle and Horses

    Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927

    by S. A. Smith, Andrew Gordon, Alexander Keyssar, Daniel James ...
    Series series Comparative and International Working-Class History
    In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. Moving from the late nineteenth century, when foreign companies first set up factories on Chinese soil, to 1927, when the labor movement created by the Chinese Communist Party was crushed by Chiang Kai-shek, Smith uses a host of documents—journalistic accounts of strikes, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Badinter Arbitration Commission

    A Contextual Study of Peace-Making Efforts in the Post-Cold War World

    by Steve Terrett ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Yugoslavia’s dissolved at a time when rhetoric of the New World Order was firmly established in legal and political discourse. Nevertheless, the largely positive appraisal of international law’s response to the Iraq - Kuwait conflict has not been mirrored in relation to Yugoslavia. This book evaluates the peace-making efforts of the major institutional ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Treaty for a Lost City

    The Sino-British Joint Declaration

    by C. L. Lim ...
    The Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed in 1984 and transferred control of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China from the 1st July 1997. This sets the scene for the establishment of the Special Administrative Region (SAR) in Hong Kong, which has been at the heart of the civil unrest in 2019-2020, culminating in the National Security Law on 30 June 2020. In the 25th anniversary year of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD