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  • BSZ  (4)
  • Project Muse  (4)
  • Andersen, Hans Christian
  • Spamer, Adolf (1883-1953)
  • Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press  (4)
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  • 1
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    Fixing inequality in Hong Kong (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xvi, 298 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Friedman lecture fund monograph
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 305.5/12
    Keywords: Equality ; Electronic books
    Abstract: When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in alleviating inequality. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, starting with early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong's aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have created a shortage of housing, driving rents and property prices upwards, and enlarging the wealth gap between those who own housing and those who do not, thus causing intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong's collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing contradictions in Hong Kong's economy and current housing problems as well as their solutions
    Abstract: Part 1. Introduction -- part 2. Alleviating poverty is hard -- part 3. Human capital, income inequality, and intergenerational mobility -- part 4. The family matters -- part 5. Housing and land -- part 6. Business strategy -- part 7. Fiscal concerns -- part 8. Labor market measures th at don't work -- part 9. What is the real challenge
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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  • 2
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    Boys' love, cosplay, and androgynous idols : queer fan cultures in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (2017)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xxxiii, 258 pages)) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Queer Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.76/6
    Keywords: Sexual minorities in mass media ; Fans (Persons) ; Fans (Persons) ; Fans (Persons)
    Abstract: Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans' diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this volume challenge long-established Western-centric and Japanese-focused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
    Abstract: Introduction / Jing Jamie Zhao, Ling Yang, and Maud Lavin -- I. Mainland China -- 1. Chinese danmei fandom and cultural globalization from below / Ling Yang and Yanrui Xu -- 2. Cosplay, cuteness, and weiniang : the queered ke'ai of male cosplayers as "fake girls" / Shih-chen Chao -- 3. "The world of grand union" : engendering trans/nationalism via boys' love in online Chinese hetalia fandom / Ling Yang -- 4. Queering the post-L word shane in the "Garden of Eden" : Chinese fans' gossip about Katherine Moennig / Jing Jamie Zhao -- 5. From online BL fandom to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala : the transforming power of online carnival -- Shuyan Zhou -- 6. Dongfang Bubai, online fandom, and the gender politics of a legendary queer icon in post-Mao China / Egret Lulu Zhou -- II. Hong Kong -- 7. Desiring queer, negotiating normal : Denise Ho (HOCC) fandom before and after the coming-out / Eva Cheuk Yin Li -- 8. Hong Kong-based fans of mainland idol Li Yuchun : elective belonging, gender ambiguity, and rooted cosmopolitanism / Maud Lavin -- III. Taiwan -- 9. Exploring the Significance of "Japaneseness" : a case study of Fujoshi's BL fantasies in Taiwan / Weijung Chang -- 10. Girls who love boys' love : BL as goods to think with in Taiwan (with a revised and updated coda) / Fran Martin
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-245) and index , Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE
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  • 3
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    Humour in Chinese life and culture : resistance and control in modern times (2013)
    Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    ISBN: 9789888268054 , 9888268058
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxii, 348 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Humour in Chinese life and culture
    DDC: 306.0951
    Keywords: Joking China ; Chinese wit and humor History and criticism ; Chinese wit and humor History and criticism ; Chinese wit and humor ; Chinese wit and humor ; Joking ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Chinese wit and humor ; Joking ; Humor ; Witz ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; China ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in advertising and education. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes designed for the general reader as well as academic audiences, the book explores the relationship between political control and popular expression of humor, including the mutual exchange of comic stereotypes between China and Japan, and draws out important methodological implications for psychological and cross-cultural studies of humor
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations and tables viiContributors xi -- Editors' note xix -- Preface -- Humour and its cultural context : introduction and overview / Jessica Milner Davis -- The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Diran John Sohigian -- Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Barak Kushner -- Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Christopher G. Rea -- Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Heather J. Crawford -- Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Guo-Hai Chen -- Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / X.L. Ding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. - "A companion volume to 'Humour in Chinese life and letters: classical and traditional approaches. - Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index. - Chiefly in English; includes some Chinese with English translation. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , Chiefly in English; includes some Chinese with English translation
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  • 4
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    Islam in Hong Kong : Muslims and everyday life in China's world city (2012)
    Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    ISBN: 9789882208407 , 9882208401 , 9789882208827 , 9882208827
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 electronic text (xiv, 217 p.) , ill., digital file.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Hong Kong culture and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.697095125
    Keywords: Muslims China ; Hong Kong ; Social conditions ; Muslims Social life and customs ; China ; Hong Kong ; Muslims China ; Hong Kong ; Muslims ; Muslims ; Muslims Social life and customs ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Islamic Studies ; Muslims ; Social conditions ; Ethnic relations ; Muslims ; Muslims ; Social life and customs ; Hong Kong (China) Ethnic relations ; China ; Hong Kong ; Hong Kong (China) Ethnic relations ; China ; Hong Kong ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "More than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. Among them are descendants of families who have been in the city for generations, recent immigrants from around the world, and growing numbers of migrant workers. Islam in Hong Kong explores the lives of Muslims as ethnic and religious minorities in this unique postcolonial Chinese city. Drawing on interviews with Muslims of different origins, O'Connor builds a detailed picture of daily life through topical chapters on language, space, religious education, daily prayers, maintaining a halal diet in a Chinese environment, racism, and other subjects. Although the picture that emerges is complex and ambiguous, one striking conclusion is that Muslims in Hong Kong generally find acceptance as a community and do not consider themselves to be victimised because of their religion."--Publisher's website
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index. - Description based on print version record. Description based on print version record
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