Bøger om Hong Kong

"Godt selskab" fortæller en klassisk trekantshistorie men er også en meget moderne kærlighedshistorie, hvor kærligheden er uforpligtende. Ava, for nyligt ankommet til Hong Kong fra Dublin, tilbringer sine dage med at undervise kinesiske børn i engelsk. Julian er bankmand. Han kan lide at bruge penge på Ava, og at have sex og diskutere ustabile valutaer med hende. Men når Ava spørger, om han elsker hende, kan han ikke sige mere end ’Jeg kan godt lide dig‘. Ind træder Edith, advokat, og forfriskende entusiastisk, men også kompromisløst ærlig. Da Julian bliver udstationeret til London, inviterer Edith Ava i teatret og viser hende Hong Kong. Og Edith bliver hurtigt noget, som Ava ser frem til."Godt selskab" er en mangefacetteret og fascinerende roman, som er lynende intelligent, brutalt morsom og skrevet med hjerte.Om forfatteren:Naoise Dolan (f. 1992 i Dublin) har læst engelsk litteratur ved Trinity College Dublin og Oxford University og bor nu i London. "Godt selskab" er hendes første roman. Et første uddrag blev offentliggjort i tidsskriftet The Stinging Fly, udgivet af Sally Rooney.

James Clavells roman ”Tai-Pan” er en fascinerende og farverig saga om grundlæggelsen af Hong Kong. En fortælling om magt, had og kærlighed, om tørsten efter opium, silke og te, om købmænd og mandariner, eventyrere og kurtisaner, smuglere og pirater.På én gang chokerende, oprørende og fantastisk underholdende. En mesterfortællers værk.Bogen udkom første gang på dansk i 1969.James Clavell (1921-1994) var en australskfødt britisk forfatter, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Han var særligt kendt for sine populære, actionfyldte romaner, hvoraf mange udspillede sig i asiatiske kulturer.

Noble House er navnet på et af de ældste, største og mest betydningsfulde handelshuse i den britiske kronkoloni, Hong Kong. Årstallet er 1963. Giganten vakler. Noble House balancerer på fallittens rand, og husets tai-pan (leder), Ian Dunross, har præcis en uge til at redde det livstruede imperium.Fra USA kommer finansmanden Bartlett for at forhandle om økonomisk støtte. Men samtidig tager han kontakt med huset Rothwell-Gornt – Noble House’s dødsfjende – for at se, hvem han har størst fordel af at handle med.Pludselig er CIA, KGB og de britiske og kinesiske efterretningstjenester inde i billedet med deres farlige intriger og dødbringende virksomhed. Og nu tager handlingen fart: På én eneste hæsblæsende uge afgøres handelshusenes og de implicerede personers skæbner i Hong Kongs heksekedel af kinesisk mystik og vestlig dekadence.James Clavells ”Noble House” udkom første gang på dansk i 1986.James Clavell (1921-1994) var en australskfødt britisk forfatter, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Han var særligt kendt for sine populære, actionfyldte romaner, hvoraf mange udspiller sig i asiatiske kulturer.

Noble House er navnet på et af de ældste, største og mest betydningsfulde handelshuse i den britiske kronkoloni, Hong Kong. Årstallet er 1963. Giganten vakler. Noble House balancerer på fallittens rand, og husets tai-pan (leder), Ian Dunross, har præcis en uge til at redde det livstruede imperium.Fra USA kommer finansmanden Bartlett for at forhandle om økonomisk støtte. Men samtidig tager han kontakt med huset Rothwell-Gornt – Noble House’s dødsfjende – for at se, hvem han har størst fordel af at handle med.Pludselig er CIA, KGB og de britiske og kinesiske efterretningstjenester inde i billedet med deres farlige intriger og dødbringende virksomhed. Og nu tager handlingen fart: På én eneste hæsblæsende uge afgøres handelshusenes og de implicerede personers skæbner i Hong Kongs heksekedel af kinesisk mystik og vestlig dekadence.James Clavells ”Noble House” udkom første gang på dansk i 1986.James Clavell (1921-1994) var en australskfødt britisk forfatter, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Han var særligt kendt for sine populære, actionfyldte romaner, hvoraf mange udspiller sig i asiatiske kulturer.

Noble House er navnet på et af de ældste, største og mest betydningsfulde handelshuse i den britiske kronkoloni, Hong Kong. Årstallet er 1963. Giganten vakler. Noble House balancerer på fallittens rand, og husets tai-pan (leder), Ian Dunross, har præcis en uge til at redde det livstruede imperium.Fra USA kommer finansmanden Bartlett for at forhandle om økonomisk støtte. Men samtidig tager han kontakt med huset Rothwell-Gornt – Noble House’s dødsfjende – for at se, hvem han har størst fordel af at handle med.Pludselig er CIA, KGB og de britiske og kinesiske efterretningstjenester inde i billedet med deres farlige intriger og dødbringende virksomhed. Og nu tager handlingen fart: På én eneste hæsblæsende uge afgøres handelshusenes og de implicerede personers skæbner i Hong Kongs heksekedel af kinesisk mystik og vestlig dekadence.James Clavells ”Noble House” udkom første gang på dansk i 1986.James Clavell (1921-1994) var en australskfødt britisk forfatter, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Han var særligt kendt for sine populære, actionfyldte romaner, hvoraf mange udspiller sig i asiatiske kulturer.

Noble House er navnet på et af de ældste, største og mest betydningsfulde handelshuse i den britiske kronkoloni, Hong Kong. Årstallet er 1963. Giganten vakler. Noble House balancerer på fallittens rand, og husets tai-pan (leder), Ian Dunross, har præcis en uge til at redde det livstruede imperium.Fra USA kommer finansmanden Bartlett for at forhandle om økonomisk støtte. Men samtidig tager han kontakt med huset Rothwell-Gornt – Noble House’s dødsfjende – for at se, hvem han har størst fordel af at handle med.Pludselig er CIA, KGB og de britiske og kinesiske efterretningstjenester inde i billedet med deres farlige intriger og dødbringende virksomhed. Og nu tager handlingen fart: På én eneste hæsblæsende uge afgøres handelshusenes og de implicerede personers skæbner i Hong Kongs heksekedel af kinesisk mystik og vestlig dekadence.James Clavells ”Noble House” udkom første gang på dansk i 1986.James Clavell (1921-1994) var en australskfødt britisk forfatter, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Han var særligt kendt for sine populære, actionfyldte romaner, hvoraf mange udspiller sig i asiatiske kulturer.

Noble House er navnet på et af de ældste, største og mest betydningsfulde handelshuse i den britiske kronkoloni, Hong Kong. Årstallet er 1963. Giganten vakler. Noble House balancerer på fallittens rand, og husets tai-pan (leder), Ian Dunross, har præcis en uge til at redde det livstruede imperium.Fra USA kommer finansmanden Bartlett for at forhandle om økonomisk støtte. Men samtidig tager han kontakt med huset Rothwell-Gornt – Noble House’s dødsfjende – for at se, hvem han har størst fordel af at handle med.Pludselig er CIA, KGB og de britiske og kinesiske efterretningstjenester inde i billedet med deres farlige intriger og dødbringende virksomhed. Og nu tager handlingen fart: På én eneste hæsblæsende uge afgøres handelshusenes og de implicerede personers skæbner i Hong Kongs heksekedel af kinesisk mystik og vestlig dekadence.James Clavells ”Noble House” udkom første gang på dansk i 1986.James Clavell (1921-1994) var en australskfødt britisk forfatter, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Han var særligt kendt for sine populære, actionfyldte romaner, hvoraf mange udspiller sig i asiatiske kulturer.

Jason Bourne har trukket sig tilbage og arbejder som underviser på universitetet i Maine under sit rigtige navn, David Webb. Her lever han et roligt liv sammen med sine kone, Marie, og kan ikke forestille sig nogensinde at skulle i tjeneste som spion igen. Men alt ændrer sig, da Marie bliver bortført og Bourne, mod sin vilje, bliver hvirvlet ind i det hemmelige magtspil, der udspiller sig i kulisserne omkring overdragelsen af Hong Kong til Kina i 1980erne. Igen må Bourne bevæge sig ind i den verden af farer og dobbeltspil, som han ellers troede, han endelig var sluppet fri af. "Bourne-duellen" er anden bog i Robert Ludlums ikoniske spionserie om Jason Bourne. De populære film af samme navn med Matt Damon i hovedrollen er inspireret af Ludlums bøger.Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) var en amerikansk forfatter, der stod bag en lang række populære spionthrillere, som er blevet solgt i over tre millioner eksemplarer verden over. Han er bedst kendt for spionserien om Jason Bourne, der i 2002 blev filmatiseret med Matt Damon i hovedrollen.

This is how you achieve changeFridays for Future. Just Stop Oil. Black Lives Matter.From Greta Thunberg's inspiring school strike in Sweden to emerging 'hacktivism' in Ethiopia and Iran to the toppling of the statue of a notorious slave trader in Britain, Barney Cullum travels around the world to find out how disruptors are fighting for a better future. Meet the dissidents campaigning for democracy in Moscow and Istanbul, activists in the Sahel, Palestine, Brazil, and Ukraine, a commune claiming underground energy in Denmark and climate emergency protesters across Europe. Everywhere Cullum goes, he asks: how are you achieving change? Find out the secrets of successful movements for social change, including:What made Ireland U-turn on abortion?How did Taiwan's students resist when Hong Kong's could not?What persuaded Britain to reform its drug laws?How did peace finally break out in Colombia?Reviews"Making a Movement is a call to action but also a great insight into some of the leading international campaigns over the last ten years, which gives a sense of hope and aspiration for the next generation of campaigners and activists." - Patrick Vernon OBE, Windrush Campaigner"Jam-packed with stories of collective action, Barney Cullum deftly brings to life the lives and passions of people who have been driven to action for a better world. Whatever your perspective on their campaigns, we all have things to learn from their imagination and skill in drawing people together to bring change." - Abigail Thomas, Hopeful Activists Podcast Host"Making a Movement delivers a wrecking ball to the unsustainable populism of the right." - Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera Journalist"If you read Barney Cullum's book, you will come away with comprehensive knowledge of the severe problems impacting people every day all over the world, but you will also feel utterly inspired to take action yourself. Powerful stories reframe the brave people and organisations who are truly taking risks to bring about positive change, all achieved in an accessible, fascinating way." - Lucy Skoulding, Human Rights Campaigner and Independent Journalist"Cullum skilfully weaves together and situates social movements, campaigns and their tactics around the world. Interviews with key and ordinary people are interlaced with stories of how he obtained access. Filled with illuminating behind-the-scenes accounts of current situations, poignant viewpoints include those of pacifist Russians and Belarusians on the war in the Ukraine. Closer to home in the UK, Cullum captures the senselessness of people locked up in psychiatric hospitals for years with no end in sight." - Valerie de Schaller, Amnesty International Grassroots Activist"Through interviews with activists and campaigners across the global spectrum, these chapters offer a crucial insight into environmental, political and human rights movements. From strike action, to street art, to direct action, this book is an argument for why a whole range of tactics are so critical to achieving real change. A captivating and meaningful read." - Ella Abraham, Praxis, For Migrants and Refugees Campaigner

'In August 1855, sixteen-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost forty years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster's diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.' - From publisher website.

In May 2021, Wong Chung-Wai left Hong Kong with his family to begin a new life in the UK. During the six months prior to their departure he had wandered the city alone using his camera to create an imprint of those things he could not take with him. The photographs in Hong Kong After Hong Kong are Chung-Wai's visual lament for the city. They show the city's contradictions--the co-existence of urban infrastructure and nature, the ancient and contemporary, and both the artificial and natural light of the city swathed by sea. Although one of the most densely populated cities in the world, Chung-Wai's photographs are devoid of crowds and often show solitary figures against cinematic backdrops. His images were made roaming on foot and alert to overlooked details, taking the viewer on a walk with him through the city he previously called home. 'These photos were initially intended to record the present moment, but now they seem more to depict the past, and tell the future.'

Mikko Takkunens atemberaubende Fotos und Geoff Dyers Essay lassen uns in die faszinierende Welt Hongkongs eintauchen.Mit seinem ersten Fotobuch "Hong Kong" hat Mikko Takkunen, Fotoredakteur der New York Times, eine der größten Metropolen der Welt in einer Zeit der politischen Unsicherheit und der Pandemie eingefangen. Inspiriert von Meistern der New York School wie Louis Faurer, Louis Stettner und Saul Leiter, wirft der finnische Fotograf einen frischen, innovativen Blick auf Hongkong; er enthüllt versteckte Perspektiven und Stimmungen, die viele Menschen so noch nie gesehen haben. Seine Fotos sind sowohl dokumentarisch als auch subjektiv und vermitteln ein Bild der Stadt, das ebenso fesselnd wie schön ist. Mit ihren leuchtenden Farben und atemberaubenden Nuancen ist jedes Foto sorgfältig ausgewählt, um ein einzigartiges Porträt der Stadt einzufangen.

Hong Kong Crime Films details the post-war history of the Hong Kong crime film prior to the release of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that turned it into perhaps the signature genre from Hong Kong. Focusing on what it calls the mode of 'criminal realism' in the crime film, this book shows how depictions of Hong Kong's social reality were for decades anxiously policed by colonial censors, and how crime films tended to confound and transgress critical definitions of realism. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hong Kong Crime Films covers several neglected topics in the study of Hong Kong cinema, such as the evolving generic landscape of the crime film prior to the 1980s, the influence of colonial film censorship on the genre, and the prominence and contestation of 'realism' in the local history of the crime film. Kristof Van den Troost is Assistant Professor at the Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong.Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over three years later he was in the cockpit of a cutting-edge Hellcat about to lead a strike force of 80 aircraft through the turbulent skies above the South China Sea. His target: Hong Kong. As a storm of antiaircraft fire darkened the sky, watching from below was POW Ray Jones. For three long years he and his fellow prisoners had endured near starvation conditions in a Japanese internment camp. Did these American aircraft, he wondered, herald freedom? Trawling through historic records, Steven K. Bailey discovered that the story of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong during the final year of World War II had never been told. Operation Gratitude involved nearly 100 U.S. Navy warships and close to a thousand planes. Target Hong Kong brings this massive operation down to a human scale by recounting the air raids through the experiences of seven men whose lives intersected at Hong Kong in January 1945: Commander John D. Lamade, five of his fellow U.S. Navy pilots and the POW Ray Jones. Drawing upon oral histories, diary transcripts, and U.S. Navy documents, this book expertly narrates the intertwined experiences of these servicemen to bring the history to life.

"Multiracial Britishness explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong. This book reframes the discussion about British identities and colonial Hong Kong, with clear implications for understanding Hong Kong's decolonisation, Brexit, and the Commonwealth"--

"Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown."-inside front cover.

Drawing extensively on the declassified British archives and Chinese sources, this book explores how Britain and China negotiated for Hong Kong's future, and how Anglo-Chinese relations flourished after 1984. This original study argues that Thatcher was a pragmatic neoliberal, and the British diplomacy of 'educating' China yielded mixed results.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Superb photographs documenting Hong Kong's buses and trams in the final two decades of British governance.

This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in point, the study outlines the semiotic profile of Kongish. It examines how Kongish communications draw on a full range of performative resources, thriving on social media affordances and a creative-critical ethos. The study then turns to look at how Kongish is commoditized in a marketing context in the form of playful epithets emplaced on locally designed products, demonstrating how the urban dialect is not merely a niche medium of communication on social media, but has become integral to commercial, profit-driven practices. The Element concludes by challenging the proposition that Kongish must be considered a 'variety' of English, arguing instead that it is an innominate term embodying translanguaging-in-action.

This book is a comprehensive, scholarly account of Hong Kong Public Budgeting, spanning from the pre-1997 British rule to the post-1997 Chinese rule. Transcending the existing comparative budgeting studies which are either central-government focused or symmetric local-government focused, this book presents Hong Kong Public Budgeting as a distinctive case of territorial autonomy. It offers historical and comparative analyses of Hong Kong Public Budgeting, tracing the evolution of budgetary institutions and budgetary decision-making and examining the critical issues of budget openness, budget oversight, and budget allocation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative budgeting studies. It will also be an excellent text for public budgeting instructors and students in East Asia and Hong Kong.

Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers' experiences of work and workplace exploitation.

This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong. Service-learning has been proven to be an effective pedagogy for the holistic development of students, as well as promotion of their well-being. It also attempts to promote the well-being of the service recipients and the community. While service-learning is becoming increasingly popular in many higher educational institutions around the world, the learning gains that can be attained from service-learning are only as good as the learning experience allows, and poorly-developed or motivated service-learning may potentially do adverse harm to students and the community. This book reinforces the imperative to enhance the capacity of the institution, teachers, students and community partners by exploring a diverse range of methods for achieving capacity building among different stakeholders. Examples of the methods explored include formal course-based professional development, scale development, action research, and communities of practice. Furthermore, the book includes a series of detailed, qualitative case studies that are aimed at embodying good practice, unpacking "e;what matters"e; from service-learning. Aa a useful resource for scholars and educators who are passionate about holistic youth leadership development, this book is also relevant to researchers in the intersection between well-being and higher education.

How did Hong Kong transform itself from a 'shoppers' and capitalists' paradise' into a 'city of protests' at the frontline of a global anti-China backlash? CK Lee situates the post-1997 China-Hong Kong contestation in the broader context of 'global China.' Beijing deploys a bundle of power mechanisms - economic statecraft, patron-clientelism, and symbolic domination - around the world, including Hong Kong. This Chinese power project triggers a variety of countermovements from Asia to Africa, ranging from acquiescence and adaptation to appropriation and resistance. In Hong Kong, reactions against the totality of Chinese power have taken the form of eventful protests, which, over two decades, have broadened into a momentous decolonization struggle. More than an ideological conflict between a liberal capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign, the Hong Kong story, stunning and singular in its many peculiarities, offers lessons about China as a global force. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.