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  • af Naoise Dolan
    190,95 kr.

    "Godt selskab" fortæller en klassisk trekantshistorie men er også en meget moderne kærlighedshistorie, hvor kærligheden er uforpligtende. Ava, for nyligt ankommet til Hong Kong fra Dublin, tilbringer sine dage med at undervise kinesiske børn i engelsk. Julian er bankmand. Han kan lide at bruge penge på Ava, og at have sex og diskutere ustabile valutaer med hende. Men når Ava spørger, om han elsker hende, kan han ikke sige mere end ’Jeg kan godt lide dig‘. Ind træder Edith, advokat, og forfriskende entusiastisk, men også kompromisløst ærlig. Da Julian bliver udstationeret til London, inviterer Edith Ava i teatret og viser hende Hong Kong. Og Edith bliver hurtigt noget, som Ava ser frem til."Godt selskab" er en mangefacetteret og fascinerende roman, som er lynende intelligent, brutalt morsom og skrevet med hjerte.Om forfatteren:Naoise Dolan (f. 1992 i Dublin) har læst engelsk litteratur ved Trinity College Dublin og Oxford University og bor nu i London. "Godt selskab" er hendes første roman. Et første uddrag blev offentliggjort i tidsskriftet The Stinging Fly, udgivet af Sally Rooney.

  • af Robert Ludlum
    239,95 kr.

    Jason Bourne har trukket sig tilbage og arbejder som underviser på universitetet i Maine under sit rigtige navn, David Webb. Her lever han et roligt liv sammen med sine kone, Marie, og kan ikke forestille sig nogensinde at skulle i tjeneste som spion igen. Men alt ændrer sig, da Marie bliver bortført og Bourne, mod sin vilje, bliver hvirvlet ind i det hemmelige magtspil, der udspiller sig i kulisserne omkring overdragelsen af Hong Kong til Kina i 1980erne. Igen må Bourne bevæge sig ind i den verden af farer og dobbeltspil, som han ellers troede, han endelig var sluppet fri af. ”Bourne-duellen” er anden bog i Robert Ludlums ikoniske spionserie om Jason Bourne. De populære film af samme navn med Matt Damon i hovedrollen er inspireret af Ludlums bøger.Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) var en amerikansk forfatter, der stod bag en lang række populære spionthrillere, som er blevet solgt i over tre millioner eksemplarer verden over. Han er bedst kendt for spionserien om Jason Bourne, der i 2002 blev filmatiseret med Matt Damon i hovedrollen.

  • af Barney Cullum
    186,95 kr.

    This is how you achieve changeFridays for Future. Just Stop Oil. Black Lives Matter.From Greta Thunberg's inspiring school strike in Sweden to emerging 'hacktivism' in Ethiopia and Iran to the toppling of the statue of a notorious slave trader in Britain, Barney Cullum travels around the world to find out how disruptors are fighting for a better future. Meet the dissidents campaigning for democracy in Moscow and Istanbul, activists in the Sahel, Palestine, Brazil, and Ukraine, a commune claiming underground energy in Denmark and climate emergency protesters across Europe. Everywhere Cullum goes, he asks: how are you achieving change? Find out the secrets of successful movements for social change, including:What made Ireland U-turn on abortion?How did Taiwan's students resist when Hong Kong's could not?What persuaded Britain to reform its drug laws?How did peace finally break out in Colombia?Reviews"Making a Movement is a call to action but also a great insight into some of the leading international campaigns over the last ten years, which gives a sense of hope and aspiration for the next generation of campaigners and activists." - Patrick Vernon OBE, Windrush Campaigner"Jam-packed with stories of collective action, Barney Cullum deftly brings to life the lives and passions of people who have been driven to action for a better world. Whatever your perspective on their campaigns, we all have things to learn from their imagination and skill in drawing people together to bring change." - Abigail Thomas, Hopeful Activists Podcast Host"Making a Movement delivers a wrecking ball to the unsustainable populism of the right." - Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera Journalist"If you read Barney Cullum's book, you will come away with comprehensive knowledge of the severe problems impacting people every day all over the world, but you will also feel utterly inspired to take action yourself. Powerful stories reframe the brave people and organisations who are truly taking risks to bring about positive change, all achieved in an accessible, fascinating way." - Lucy Skoulding, Human Rights Campaigner and Independent Journalist"Cullum skilfully weaves together and situates social movements, campaigns and their tactics around the world. Interviews with key and ordinary people are interlaced with stories of how he obtained access. Filled with illuminating behind-the-scenes accounts of current situations, poignant viewpoints include those of pacifist Russians and Belarusians on the war in the Ukraine. Closer to home in the UK, Cullum captures the senselessness of people locked up in psychiatric hospitals for years with no end in sight." - Valerie de Schaller, Amnesty International Grassroots Activist"Through interviews with activists and campaigners across the global spectrum, these chapters offer a crucial insight into environmental, political and human rights movements. From strike action, to street art, to direct action, this book is an argument for why a whole range of tactics are so critical to achieving real change. A captivating and meaningful read." - Ella Abraham, Praxis, For Migrants and Refugees Campaigner

  • af Benjamin Penny
    195,95 kr.

  • af Wong Chung-Wai
    443,95 kr.

    In May 2021, Wong Chung-Wai left Hong Kong with his family to begin a new life in the UK. During the six months prior to their departure he had wandered the city alone using his camera to create an imprint of those things he could not take with him.

  • af Mikko Takkunen
    473,95 kr.

    Mikko Takkunens atemberaubende Fotos und Geoff Dyers Essay lassen uns in die faszinierende Welt Hongkongs eintauchen.Mit seinem ersten Fotobuch "Hong Kong" hat Mikko Takkunen, Fotoredakteur der New York Times, eine der größten Metropolen der Welt in einer Zeit der politischen Unsicherheit und der Pandemie eingefangen. Inspiriert von Meistern der New York School wie Louis Faurer, Louis Stettner und Saul Leiter, wirft der finnische Fotograf einen frischen, innovativen Blick auf Hongkong; er enthüllt versteckte Perspektiven und Stimmungen, die viele Menschen so noch nie gesehen haben. Seine Fotos sind sowohl dokumentarisch als auch subjektiv und vermitteln ein Bild der Stadt, das ebenso fesselnd wie schön ist. Mit ihren leuchtenden Farben und atemberaubenden Nuancen ist jedes Foto sorgfältig ausgewählt, um ein einzigartiges Porträt der Stadt einzufangen.

  • af Kristof Van den Troost
    1.139,95 kr.

    Hong Kong Crime Films details the post-war history of the Hong Kong crime film prior to the release of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that turned it into perhaps the signature genre from Hong Kong. Focusing on what it calls the mode of 'criminal realism' in the crime film, this book shows how depictions of Hong Kong's social reality were for decades anxiously policed by colonial censors, and how crime films tended to confound and transgress critical definitions of realism. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hong Kong Crime Films covers several neglected topics in the study of Hong Kong cinema, such as the evolving generic landscape of the crime film prior to the 1980s, the influence of colonial film censorship on the genre, and the prominence and contestation of 'realism' in the local history of the crime film. Kristof Van den Troost is Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

  • af Steven K. Bailey
    226,95 kr.

    Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong.Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from below was POW Ray Jones. For three long years he and his fellow prisoners had endured near starvation conditions in a Japanese internment camp. Did these American aircraft, he wondered, herald freedom? Trawling through historic records, Steven K. Bailey discovered that the story of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong during the final year of World War II had never been told. Operation Gratitude involved nearly 100 U.S. Navy warships and close to a thousand planes. Target Hong Kong brings this massive operation down to a human scale by recounting the air raids through the experiences of seven men whose lives intersected at Hong Kong in January 1945: Commander John D. Lamade, five of his fellow U.S. Navy pilots and the POW Ray Jones. Drawing upon oral histories, diary transcripts, and U.S. Navy documents, this book expertly narrates the intertwined experiences of these servicemen to bring the history to life.

  • af Vivian Kong
    999,95 kr.

    "Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong's decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth"--

  • af Shibani Mahtani
    278,95 kr.

    "Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown."-inside front cover.

  • af Chi-Kwan Mark
    972,95 kr.

    Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong's future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of 'educating' China yielded mixed results.

  • af Ching Kwan Lee
    207,95 kr.

    How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms - economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination - around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • af Tong King Lee
    205,95 kr.

    This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in point, the study outlines the semiotic profile of Kongish. It examines how Kongish communications draw on a full range of performative resources, thriving on social media affordances and a creative-critical ethos. The study then turns to look at how Kongish is commoditized in a marketing context in the form of playful epithets emplaced on locally designed products, demonstrating how the urban dialect is not merely a niche medium of communication on social media, but has become integral to commercial, profit-driven practices. The Element concludes by challenging the proposition that Kongish must be considered a 'variety' of English, arguing instead that it is an innominate term embodying translanguaging-in-action.

  • af Linda Chelan Li
    1.465,95 kr.

    This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of Chinäs Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

  • af Lawrence Osborne
    118,95 - 166,95 kr.

  • af Mark Butterworth
    118,95 kr.

  • af Philip Wallis
    156,95 kr.

    Superb photographs documenting Hong Kong's buses and trams in the final two decades of British governance.

  • af Angelina Chin
    309,95 - 1.214,95 kr.

  • af Rup Narayan Das
    1.465,95 kr.

  • af Gonzalo Villalta Puig & Eric Ip
    425,95 - 1.465,95 kr.

  • af Arthur Van Langenberg
    198,95 kr.

  • af Simon Whitmarsh & Andrew Mok
    165,95 kr.

  • af Shih Joo Tan
    1.465,95 kr.

    Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers¿ experiences of work and workplace exploitation.

  • af John D. Wong
    564,95 kr.

    Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. In Hong Kong Takes Flight, John Wong argues that Hong Kong¿s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained and views the city¿s globalization through the prism of its airline industry.

  • af Shane Boulware
    328,95 kr.

    In this sequel urban fantasy novel, a man named Steven witnesses the return of a demon. In a race against time and evil, Steven does whatever it takes to expose the Soulstealer, even if it means going against everything he believes.

  • af Jakob R. E. Leimgruber & Siemund Peter
    543,95 - 1.771,95 kr.

  • af Lawrence Osborne
    136,95 kr.

    A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty indolent years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Englishman Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it. The party gave no sign of ending: nights burned away in private clubs and restaurants; days were spent on laughably easy assignments. But now the streets are choked with students demanding democratic freedoms, and the old world begins to fall apart.Watching from the skyrises overlooking the protests is Adrian's old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of a wealthy Hong Kong family, who has begun a reckless affair with Rebecca, a leading pro-democracy protestor, full of idealism and reeking of tear gas. The couple are dancing over the abyss, playing for time, and Adrian is drawn into their clandestine romance with a mixture of complicity and envy.But when Rebecca disappears and Jimmy goes to ground, Adrian unearths the familiar old urge to investigate, and personal loyalties evaporate overnight. Now an unwelcome foreigner in a hostile land, Adrian must reckon with these vanishings as old Hong Kong quietly slips off the stage. Pursuing Rebecca's ghost to Java Road where the city's dead congregate, Adrian re-assembles her final hours - as he struggles to distinguish between delusion and reality.

  • af Teresa Lim
    148,95 kr.

    Discover one family's fascinating story in this beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational memoir, spanning 19th century south China to modern day Singapore'A captivating, compelling story of history, family loyalty, and personal sacrifice. A fascinating and richly textured multigenerational tale' Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake'I would learn that when families tell stories, what they leave out re-defines what they keep in. With my family, these were not secrets intentionally withheld. Just truths too painful to confront . . .'________In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. On the back is the place and date: Hong Kong, 1935.Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the told and retold family stories. Why? she wondered.This photograph set Teresa on a journey to uncover her family's remarkable history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers, she was guided to the fascinating, extraordinary life of her great-aunt and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China.But to recover her great-aunt's past, we first must get to know Fanny's family, the times and circumstances in which they lived, and the momentous yet forgotten conflicts that would lead to war in Singapore and, ultimately, a long-buried family tragedy.________ The Interpreter's Daughter is a beautifully moving record of an extraordinary family history. For fans of Wild Swans, The Hare With Amber Eyes, and Falling Leaves this is the next classic in the making.

  • af Linda Cookson
    240,95 kr.

    This study seeks to explore Brian Patten's position in relation to his fellow "Liverpool Poets" and to contemporary poetry more widely.

  • af Jane Gardam
    153,95 kr.

    Funkelnder Witz und abgründige LeidenschaftBetty hatte soeben Feathers' Heiratsantrag angenommen, als sie zum ersten Mal in die magnetisch blitzenden Augen Veneerings blickte - eine Stunde zu spät, wie sie hellsichtig bemerkt. Veneering wird zeitlebens Feathers' Widersacher in nahezu jeder Hinsicht sein - er ist ein vulgärer Aufschneider, unattraktiv, aber unwiderstehlich. Von der einen Liebesnacht zehrt Betty ein ganzes langes Eheleben, die Erinnerung an Begehren und Leidenschaft lässt sie Krankheit, Einsamkeit und Kinderlosigkeit ertragen.

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