Chinese Culture & Society

Bringing together two areas of study that tend to be marginalised within their home disciplines Queer Sinophone Cultures innovatively advances both Sinophone studies and queer studies. It not only examines film and literature from Mainland China but expands its scope to encompass the underrepresente..

How do migrant Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia understand and represent ‘Chineseness’ or China in their creative works, academic writings, and practices of life, in response to the impediments placed on self-identification by the need to integrate into new social surroundings? This book was ..

How do migrant Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia understand and represent ‘Chineseness’ or China in their creative works, academic writings, and practices of life, in response to the impediments placed on self-identification by the need to integrate into new social surroundings? This book was ..

This book investigates the ways in which class, gender, ethnicity and ethics are reconfigured, complicated and enriched by the closely intertwined online and offline realities in China. It combs through a wide range of theories on Internet culture, intellectual history, and literary, film, and cultu..

This book examines responses to youth crime in Hong Kong, offering a point of comparison and potential contrast with the majority of examinations of youth crime that focus on western nations such as the US and UK.  Examining how officials have responded to youth crime over time, it highlights concer..

This book examines responses to youth crime in Hong Kong, offering a point of comparison and potential contrast with the majority of examinations of youth crime that focus on western nations such as the US and UK.  Examining how officials have responded to youth crime over time, it highlights concer..

The Amoy-dialect film industry thrived in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the 1950s. This book represents the first full length, critical study of the origin, rise and decline of this industry and, in so doing, it raises a number of timely questions relating to transnationalism of Chinese culture, t..

This handbook brings together a significant number of specialists from a number of diverse disciplines and covers the major areas of the study of Chinese overseas. This Handbook is therefore an important reference work for students and scholars of Chinese migration, transnational connections and the..

This book is a study of knowledge production about China and the Chinese civilization and as such it is a critique of the ways in which knowledge about the Chinese civilization is produced. It is not primarily intended as one that sets out to expose biases and prejudices against China, correct error..

Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers the views of ordinary people, and is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews. This approach results in rich, nuanced data of attitudes on a range of..

Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers the views of ordinary people, and is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews. This approach results in rich, nuanced data of attitudes on a range of..

This book examines the relationship between revolution, space, and culture in modern China by taking five spatially significant revolutionary events as case studies and analyzing how revolution constructs, conceives, and transforms space...