The Hong Kong Connection

Author : Yun Wing Sung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521382458
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China-Hong Kong Connection written by Yun Wing Sung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the 'middleman' role Hong Kong has played in China's Open Door Policy. It explains the paradoxical situation by which Hong Kong's role as intermediary in China's commodity trade is becoming more prominent in spite of the fact that since the development of the Open Door Policy in 1979 China has established many direct diplomatic, commercial and transportation links with the outside world. The book makes an important contribution to understanding China's various phases of economic reform and its interactions with global economic markets. Moreover, its arrival is timely, given the forced isolation of China after the events in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 as well as the fact that few years remain before Hong Kong ceases to be a British colony to become part of China. Dr Sung predicts that China's demands on Hong Kong's capacity as intermediary will increase dramatically when this happens.

Author : S. G. Kiner
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606932365
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hong Kong Connection, a Susanna Sloane Novel written by S. G. Kiner and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Securities attorney Susanna Sloane is engaged as a consultant by the Chinese government. While in Hong Kong she is drugged, and unknowingly raped and photographed nude by Henry Wu, a Chinese official. She begins to have bizarre and unnerving psychic episodes. Assisted by a hypnotherapist she discovers how Wu had used her. The secretary of the treasury, Roger Howell, enlists her aid in preventing the Chinese government's manipulation and purchase of oil futures. She travels with Howell to Beijing. They begin an affair. The Chinese hire Susanna to negotiate oil field development in Venezuela. Susanna devises a scheme to benefit both China and the U.S. She returns to Hong Kong to destroy Wu's photos, and, with the aid of the Russian mob, breaks into Wu's apartment. Events spiral out of control and Wu and his housekeeper are killed. The Chinese send investigators to New York to question her, but a high-ranking Chinese general, secretly delighted at the removal of a political rival, stops them.

Author : Meaghan Morris
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932643192
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Connections written by Meaghan Morris and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders? Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland. In the process, this collective study examines diverse cultural contexts for action cinema's popularity, and the problems involved in the transnational study of globally popular forms suggesting that in order to grasp the history of Hong Kong action cinema's influence we need to bring out the differences as well as the links that constitute popularity.

Author : P. Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780582427266
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Connection written by P. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622094482
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong's Reunion with China written by and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hong Kong transforms from a colonial dependent territory to a Chinese special administrative region, its international status will be increasingly connected to China's position in the world. the nature of Hong Kong global linkages are shifting as thepo

Author : Yun-Wing Sung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China-Hong Kong Connection written by Yun-Wing Sung and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hong Kong-Guangdong Film Connection written by and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 29th Hong Kong International Film Festival, 22.3-6.4.2005; Hong Kong Film Archive, Pearl River Delta: movie, culture, life programme, 18.3-5.6.2005."--Prelim.

Author : Peter Cooper
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582025240
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hong Kong Connection written by Peter Cooper and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longman Originals is a series of graded readers. All the stories are specially written for EFL students and follow internationally established language guidelines.

Author : Linda Chiu-Han Lai
Publisher : Intellect Books
ISBN 13 : 1783201053
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Film Locations: Hong Kong written by Linda Chiu-Han Lai and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid development of Hong Kong has occasioned the demolition of buildings and landscapes of historic significance, but film acts as a repository for memories of lost places, vanished vistas and material objects. Location shoots in Hong Kong have preserved many disappearing landmarks of the city, and the resulting films function as valuable and irreplaceable archives of the city’s evolution. Far more than a simple collection of movie locations, this book delivers a rare glimpse into the history of film production practices in Hong Kong. The locations described here are often not the most iconic; rather, they are the anonymous streets and back alleys used by local film studios in the 1960s and 70s. They are the garden cafes with outdoor seating near the Chinese University of Hong Kong where moments of conflict in romantic comedies erupt and dissipate. They are the old Kai Tak Airport, which channels rage and desire, and the tenement housing, which splits citizens into greedy landlords and the diligent working class and embodies old-day communal values. Modern Hong Kong horror films draw their power from the material character of home-grown convenient stores, shopping arcades and lost mansions found under modern high rises. As in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Johnnie To, readers will drift and dash through the streets of Central to the district’s periphery, almost recklessly, automatically, or for the sheer pleasure of roaming. The first of its kind in English, this book is more than a city guide to Hong Kong through the medium of film; it is a unique exploration of relationship between location and place and genre innovations in Hong Kong cinema.

Author : Ming K. Chan
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563248702
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hong Kong Reader written by Ming K. Chan and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, as well as Frank Ching, Berry F. Hsu, Reginald Yin-wang Kwok, Peter Kwong, Julian Y.M. Leung, Ronald Skeldon, Alvin Y. So, Yun-wing Sung, and James T.H. Tang - the majority of whom live and work in Hong Kong and experience the transition firsthand, personally and professionally.