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Investigation Into Commercial and Industrial-Type Activities in the Federal Government
Focuses on Federal agency competition with private industry.
Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers
This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how "Made in Japan" products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to emphasize the collaborative approach adopted by one Japanese manufacturing giant and a Hong Kong entrepreneur. The book also highlights the role Hong Kong, as a free port, played in the rice cooker's globalization and describes how the city facilitated the transnational flow of Japanese appliances to Southeast Asia, China, and North America. Based on over 40 interviews conduc...
Kirsten Rising
Set against the backdrop of exotic Southeast Asia, the second volume of The Wanchai Chronicles continues the thrills as it tells the tale of Kirsten Haugaard, an American widow facing a charge of conspiring to murder her successful and prominent husband. In 1999, at the height of the technology investment boom, American venture capitalist Karl Haugaard and his wife, Kirsten, embark on a holiday to Thailand's tropical island of Phuket. One year later, with Karl dead, and the Hong Kong High Court closing in on an indictment, Kirsten's therapist forces her to look back on this defining experience in search of the truth about her husband's death. Follow the twists and turns of Kirsten's Asian adventure as she experiences a torrid love affair and a near-perfect scheme to avenge a heartbreaking betrayal that ultimately brings this story to a disquieting conclusion.
Hong Kong & Macau
This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today. Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise. This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang. It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women. This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.
Labour Law in the Courts
This book deals with six EU Member States analysing two areas of substantive law: transfer of undertakings and equality legislation.
School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
This book examines recent reforms and innovations in school music education within the changing societies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. These three regions share a common historical culture but have had diverse socio-political experiences. Whilst some musical knowledge is common to all three, some is particular to one or two and depends on their responses to globalization, localization and national identity. This book aims to compare how music education in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei has adjusted to the forces of globalization, localization and Sinofication. It contributes significantly to thinking about education reforms in response to this tripartite paradigm with respect to not only Chinese communities but also to the Asia-Pacific Region as a whole.
Open Doors
On one level, this is an intriguing account of expat life in Shanghai's International settlement in the early 20th century. On another level is charted the introduction and growth of new western technologies and companies in China. And the backdrop to these stories is early 20th century China itself: the hopes, fears, turmoil and grandeur of the age.
