A Borrowed Place
Author | : Frank Welsh |
Publisher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.
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Author | : Frank Welsh |
Publisher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
About the history of Hong Kong from ancient times until 1993.
Author | : Richard Hughes |
Publisher | : Deutsch |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Rev. ed. published 1976 under title: Borrowed place, borrowed time. Bibliography: p. [173].
Author | : Riika-Leena Juntunen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004302948 |
In Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist activity. The book examines the changing place identity around the stations from political, religious, ritual, cultural, and gendered perspectives, revealing a Chinese semi-religious community with varying motivations and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. The group developed its own normative code and hierarchy, and it offered both economic and religious benefits according to local models. Yet the developing political situation also meant it had to solve the question of anti-foreignism to be able to continue its existence.
Author | : Philip Durkin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199574995 |
This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effects of contact with languages ranging from Latin and French to Yiddish, Chinese, and Maori, from Saxon times to the present. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English.
Author | : P. E. N. Hong Kong Kong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9789887792765 |
The handover in 1997 saw Hong Kong's transition from colonial to communist rule under the auspices of 'one country, two systems'. But twenty years on, the real impact of the sovereignty change is just starting to register, with a rapid erosion of freedoms. Believing that we are stronger together, PEN Hong Kong invited some of the city's most prominent writers to contribute to an anthology of essays, fiction and artwork that marks this historical milestone.
Author | : Chan Ho-Kei |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802189822 |
A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.
Author | : Jared Vauk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Dam safety |
ISBN | : |
Author | : André Aciman |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374720215 |
The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also known as counterfactual moods and include the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative—all best expressed in this book as the might-be and the might-have-been. One of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are about what might have been but never was but could in theory still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, C. P. Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection on the imagination’s power to forge a zone outside of time’s intractable hold.
Author | : Richard Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Hong Kong (China) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony P. Grant |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2020-02-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199945098 |
"In thirty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition, it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world."-- Jaquette.