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Tales of Old Hong Kong

The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled and written by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books . Below we run an extract. Excerpt from Tales of Old Hong Kong edited and written by Derek Sandhaus Boat People In A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’ by Annie...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 10:00 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun

Peter Spurrier from Blacksmith Books contributed this introduction "Diamond Hill was one of the poorest and most backward of villages in Hong Kong at a time when Hong Kong itself was poor and backward,” says Feng Chi-shun. “We moved there in 1956...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 2:20 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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William A. Callahan's China: The Pessoptimist Nation

William A. Callahan is Professor of International Politics and China Studies at the University of Manchester, and Co-Director of the British Inter-University China Center at Oxford University. His recent publications include Cultural Governance and Resistance...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2010 3:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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The WTO Ruling on China's Regime for Distributing and Importing Entertainment Products

In August 2009, a World Trade Organization panel ruled against China’s system of monopoly control over entertainment products. Was this the victory supporters hailed as the dawn of a new day for American and global entertainment companies in the China...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2010 3:45 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Urban China: Work in Progress

Urban China: Work in Progress published by Timezone 8 is based on work from Urban China magazine. Below, co-editor of the book Brendan McGetrick gives us permission for an extract as well as a section from his own introduction to the book. The extract...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 2:45 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Liliane Willens' Stateless in Shanghai

Stateless in Shanghai is the story of Dr. Liliane Willens' experiences growing up as a "stateless person" in cosmopolitan Shanghai from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Willens was born to Russian Jewish parents, both denationalized by...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2009 2:40 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Duncan Hewitt's Getting Rich First

American cover; courtesy of Duncan Hewitt Just released in the US as a paperback by Pegasus Books, with a new foreword, under the title China － Getting Rich First: A modern social history , the book draws on Hewitt’s experience as a student in China in...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2009 3:40 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Lawrence L. Allen's Chocolate Fortunes

Lawrence L. Allen, who for seven years worked in turn as an executive with Hershey in China and then later Nestlé, is the author of Chocolate Fortunes , published by Amacom Books . The Preface of the book introduces chocolate in context: The battle for...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 11:50 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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The Inmost Shrine: A Photographic Odyssey of China, 1873

One of the first photojournalists in the world, John Thomson, traveled to China and took photographs of Chinese people in the late 19th century. His photographs have been widely circulated, collected by the Wellcome Gallery in England and by National...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2009 4:15 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Xujun Eberlein's Apologies Forthcoming

Hong Kong's Blacksmith Books has published a short story collection by Xujun Eberlein . Below is an introduction to the book by Pete Spurrier, of Blacksmith, followed by an extract from the book. Introduction to Apologies Forthcoming by Pete Spurrier...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2009 4:25 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City

Earnshaw Books republishes the English-language memoirs of a Manchu noble's daughter who served the Dowager Cixi from 1903 to 1905. The "princess" had been staying in France previously and came back with the intention of improving the backwards...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2009 5:20 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China

Carl Crow’s war diaries, edited by Paul French (whose blog is at China Rhyming ), has been published by Earnshaw Books . For more on Crow, see Danwei's posts from Crow's books, 400 Million Customers and Foreigners in a Flowery Kingdom . The introduction...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 10:00 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius

Earnshaw Books publishes another classic from a forgotten era, this time a foreign journalist's account with pirates in the early 1900s. Below is the original Foreword to the book, written by Access Asia's Paul French , and an extract from Chapter...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 3:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Jonathan Chamberlain's King : The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

This introduction was contributed by Peter Spurrier In the years before the latter’s death at the age of 79, Jonathan Chamberlain spent an evening a week recording the stories told by Peter . The resulting biography tells, in ’s own words, of scandal...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 6:44 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Charles Horner's Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate

Charles Horner's book, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context , published by University of Georgia Press, was summed up in a review article published in the Asia Chronicle: Horner’s unconventional approach...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 2:37 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Tales of Old Hong Kong

Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun

William A. Callahan's China: The Pessoptimist Nation

The WTO Ruling on China's Regime for Distributing and Importing Entertainment Products

Urban China: Work in Progress

Liliane Willens' Stateless in Shanghai

Duncan Hewitt's Getting Rich First

Lawrence L. Allen's Chocolate Fortunes

The Inmost Shrine: A Photographic Odyssey of China, 1873

Xujun Eberlein's Apologies Forthcoming

Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City

Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China

I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius

Jonathan Chamberlain's King : The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

Charles Horner's Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate