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  • China's Hong Kong

    The Politics of a Global City

    by Prof. Tim Summers ...
    Series series Business with China
    In 1997, Hong Kong became a special administrative region of China under the “one country, two systems” framework. In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of the mass demonstrations of 2019–20 and the city’s intensifying confrontational politics that have culminated in China’s new national ... Read more

    $31.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Video Game Music

    by Tim Summers ...
    Understanding Video Game Music develops a musicology of video game music by providing methods and concepts for understanding music in this medium. From the practicalities of investigating the video game as a musical source to the critical perspectives on game music - using examples including Final Fantasy VII, Monkey Island 2, SSX Tricky and Silent Hill - these explorations not only illuminate ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Global China

    A Critique of Chinese and Western Narratives

    by Tim Summers ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in East Asian International Relations
    This insightful book explores evolving perceptions of China, contrasting dominant Western narratives with Chinese perspectives. Highlighting the complexities of these discourses, the book critiques three prevailing views of China’s rise: the return of geopolitics, challenges to liberal order and prospects for collaborative governance.Bridging China Studies, International Relations and Global ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music

    Edited by Melanie Fritsch, Tim Summers ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. The chapters and summaries consolidate existing knowledge and present tools ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Pixel Soundtracks

    Exploring Video Game Music through Twenty Games

    by Tim Summers ...
    Series series Music Pro Guides
    Tim Summers provides an engaging introduction to video game music aimed at gamers, music enthusiasts, budding composers, music professionals, and anyone with an interest in the topic. Pixel Soundtracks explore a wide variety of topics, including:the history of game musicsound technology and chip musicinteractive and generative music compositionhow game music tells stories, creates worlds & ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Queerness of Video Game Music

    by Tim Summers ...
    Series series Elements in Music since 1945
    Video game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This Element proposes three areas of queerness, each representing different relationships between 'queer design' and 'queer engagement', ranging ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

    A Game Music Companion

    by Tim Summers, Tim Summers, Mark Sweeney, Michiel Kamp, Melanie Fritsch ...
    Series series Studies in Game Sound and Music
    Some 22 years after its creation, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is still held in high critical regard as one of the finest examples of the video game medium. The same is true of the game’s music, whose superlative reception continues to be evident, whether in the context of the game or in orchestral concerts and recordings of the game’s music.Given music’s well-established significance for ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization

    by Tim Summers ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    The rise of China has been shaped and driven by its engagement with the global economy during a period of intensified globalization, yet China is a continent-sized economy and society with substantial diversity across its different regions. This means that its engagement with the global economy cannot just be understood at the national level, but requires analysis of the differences in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Yunnan-A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia

    A Case Study of China's Political and Economic Relations with its Neighbours

    by Tim Summers ...
    Series series Chandos Asian Studies Series
    The Chinese Government's five-year strategy for social and economic development to 2015 includes the aim of making the southwestern province of Yunnan a bridgehead for 'opening the country' to southeast Asia and south Asia. Yunnan - A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia traces the dynamic process which has led to this policy goal, a process through which Yunnan is being repositioned from a southwestern ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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  • Sound Play

    Video Games and the Musical Imagination

    by William Cheng ...
    Series series Oxford Music / Media
    Video games open portals to fantastical worlds where imaginative play and enchantment prevail. These virtual settings afford us considerable freedom to act out with relative impunity. Or do they? Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people's creative engagements with gaming's audio phenomena-from sonorous violence to synthesized operas, from democratic music ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In the 1990s China embarked on a series of political reforms intended to increase, however modestly, political participation to reduce the abuse of power by local officials. Although there was initial progress, these reforms have largely stalled and, in many cases, gone backward. If there were sufficient incentives to inaugurate reform, why wasn't there enough momentum to continue and deepen them? ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Music In Video Games

    Studying Play

    Edited by K.J. Donnelly, William Gibbons, Neil Lerner ...
    Series series Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
    From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super ... Read more

    $61.99 USD