Southern China Hong Kong

Author : Richard M. K. Saunders
Publisher : Earnshaw Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789888552030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Trees of Hong Kong and Southern China written by Richard M. K. Saunders and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong possesses an impressively diverse tree flora with 390 native species. This book celebrates the incredible diversity, beauty and biology of the territory's tree species, highlighting over 100 important species that are individually illustrated in exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings by Sally Grace Bunker, an acclaimed botanical artist. The illustrations are accompanied by text that teases out a diversity of associated narratives for each species, ranging from the history of global exploration and scientific discoveries, the ecology and biology of each species, and the various ways in which they have been utilised and their cultural associations.

Author : James O'Reilly
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781885211033
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong written by James O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 1996 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We've collected useful and memorable stories to produce the kind of sampler we've always wanted to read before setting out. These stories will show you a spectrum of experiences to be had or avoided in Hong Kong"--Back cover

Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Insight Guides
ISBN 13 : 9789812584847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern China & Hong Kong written by Insight Guides and published by Insight Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the South China Sea to the Himalayas, Southern China is explored in stunning, full-color photography and lively essays. Comprehensive hotel and restaurant listings, along with cross-referenced maps and floor plans, provide a complete coverage of must-see sights.

Author : Edward J. M. Rhoads
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528661
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Revolution in South China written by Edward J. M. Rhoads and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In War and Revolution in South China, Edward Rhoads recounts his childhood and early teenage years during the Sino-Japanese War and the early postwar years. Rhoads came from a biracial family. His father was an American professor while his Chinese mother was a typist and stenographer. In the late 1930s and the 1940s, the Rhoads family lived through the turbulent years in southern China and Hong Kong. The book follows Rhoads’ childhood in Guangzhou, his family’s evacuation to Hong Kong, his father’s internment and repatriation to the United States, and his and his mother’s flight to Free China. He recalls his reunion with family members in northern Guangdong Province in 1943, their retreat to China’s wartime capital of Chongqing, where his father worked for the American government, and how they returned to Guangzhou after the war. The Rhoads family then witnessed the socioeconomic recovery in the city and the regime change in 1949. The book ends with their departure from China to the United States in 1951, a year and a half after the Communist revolution. The book fills an important gap in the scholarship by examining the impact of the Sino-Japanese War in southern China from the perspective of one family. Rhoads reveals that the war in this region, while often neglected by scholars, was in fact no less turbulent than it was in northern and central China. He combines autobiography with serious historical research to reconstruct the lives of his family, consulting a large number of archival documents, private correspondence, and scholarly literature to produce a rare study that is both scholarly and accessible. “This book is a very timely reminder that one should look at the experience of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War from a regional perspective in order to understand the diverse historical experience of the people from different geographical, ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds.” —Chi-man Kwong, Hong Kong Baptist University “A pleasure to read and of compelling interest, Edward Rhoads’ book explores the more benign side of the foreign influence in modern China: the introduction of modern educational institutions. The intriguing lens through which we look is his biracial family, their multiple flights across southern China as refugees escaping war, and their eventual expulsion from China.” —Stephen Davies, The University of Hong Kong

Author : B. M. Walden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780904917024
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Flowers of South China and Hong Kong written by B. M. Walden and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished botanist S.Y. Hu and watercolorist B.M. Walden present in this book, beautiful and accurate illustrations of the commoner flowers of Hong Kong and South China. For ease of identification, the plants are arranged according to the month of the year in which they are most usually to be seen in flower.

Author : Sally Bunker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789888552054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Trees of Hong Kong and Southern China written by Sally Bunker and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Khanna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan written by Jane Khanna and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Chung
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230501761
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925 written by S. Chung and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-04-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics can be a profitable business as can be found in Republican era Canton amidst a politically fragmented China. Competing merchant groups in Hong Kong sought to finance the regional Canton government in return for financial concessions. This patronage system made commercial endeavours dependent on politics and embedded business in politics.

Author : Harry Alverson Franck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roving Through Southern China written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : South China Morning Post Team
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811218625
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel City: Hong Kong's Year Of Water And Fire written by South China Morning Post Team and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCMP's reporting team looks back at Hong Kong's most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill protests that morphed rapidly into a wider anti-government movement in 2019 left no aspect of the city untouched, from its social compact to its body politic to its open economy. The demonstrations which continued well into 2020 have tested every institution of the city, from the civil service to the police to the courts and even its rail transport operator, and from offices and businesses to universities and schools, and from churches to families and even friends.This book is for anyone seeking to understand not just what Hong Kong has gone through but also the global phenomenon of increasingly leaderless protest movements. Fueled by profound angst about the place of millennial youth in society, widening income inequality, and the speed of digital communications, Hong Kong was in retrospect ripe to be the laboratory for a new-age protest movement, nearly a decade after the Middle East's Arab spring.The essays in the book collectively compose a picture of a society in trauma, bent and broken, but showing signs of an uncanny ability to bounce back. What shape it will be in a few years from now, however, is much harder to predict.Related Link(s)