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Hong Kong comics have a long history and have long occupied an important position in the world of comics. In the past half century, Hong Kong comics have been changing with the development of Hong Kong's society and politics in terms of content, style, and industry structure. However, Hong Kong citizens' interest in Hong Kong comics has declined from its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. From the turn of the millennium to the present, Hong Kong comics have been mostly sunken into oblivion. What factors have driven the rise and fall of Hong Kong comics? Has the cultural and artistic value of Hong Kong comics received enough attention? The author was once an assistant in the Hong Kong comics industry and is now a member of the academic community. He hopes to compile a comprehensive record and archive of the Hong Kong comics industry, an important part of local pop culture, in order to examine and promote the development of local creative industries.
- AuthorVictor Lai Ming-hoi
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2015
This book is from the "Joint Academic Library" series, with a specialized topic and informative content. It is a comprehensive work in the field of cultural exchange history that has been rare in recent years. Beijing, as the ancient capital of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, played an important role in the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West. Western travelers, missionaries, diplomats, and merchants have come to Beijing since the Yuan Dynasty. They recorded their personal experiences in various genres such as notes, diaries, letters, and memoirs, and then brought them back to their homeland, forming the "Beijing Image" from the Western perspective. The author quotes relevant first-hand materials and writes a history of political and cultural exchanges between China and the West during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties based on the research results of Chinese and foreign scholars, allowing readers to glimpse the evolution of how the West look at China over the past thousand years.
- AuthorOuyang Zhesheng
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2019
This book is a collection of stories about Hong Kong people. It consists of 50 articles, with concise and elegant language. The characters and stories are classified into five categories: "Home and Country", "Bravery", "Heritage", "Self-improvement", and "Guardianship". They include stories of patriotic Hong Kong businessmen, loyal and brave Hong Kong police officers, those on cultural heritage passed down from generation to generation, struggling stories of Hongkongers for self-improvement, and stories of mainland and Hong Kong medical workers joining forces to fight epidemics. Through these 50 moving stories under the Lion Rock, people can read about the warmth, strength, justice, unity, and perseverance of Hong Kong society, a master narrative told by countless Hong Kong people.
- AuthorXin Hua
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2022
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This book is a collection of more than 40 essays written by the author over the past 30 years, in memory of his teachers and friends. The 20-plus "teachers and friends" recounted in the book are mostly famous teachers and scholars, including Qian Zhongshu, Xia Zhiqing, Hu Qiaomu, Zhou Yang, Hu Sheng, Shi Guangnan, Nie Gannu, Ma Sicong, Gao Xingjian, Jin Yong, Li Zehou, and so on. Through the author's word-by-word narration and the correspondences they exchanged, the deep friendships between teachers and friends are vividly portrayed on paper. Not only can readers capture the author's true feelings for his teachers and friends, but also have access to well-written texts with tremendous historical and documentary value.
- AuthorLiu Zaifu
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2015
Tang Xiangqian, who came from a family of textile industry in Wuxi, settled in Hong Kong in his early years and established himself there. After the reform and opening up of China, he became one of the first to invest in China and establish Sino-foreign joint ventures, and established a business empire for his family. This book is not only a success story of a Hong Kong tycoon benefitting from the industrial prosperity, but also a story of diligent and entrepreneurship, documenting symbiosis and mutual help between Hong Kong and China in the economic development process over the past half century.
- AuthorJiang Xiaoxin, Tang Ye
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2014
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The establishment of the modern "regional culture" discourse was the process of the national concept shifting from "all under heaven" to "nation". In this process, modern scholars constantly adjusted their tone in the duet of national consciousness and local care, added their own voices, and established a dialectical unity between the nation and the locality, making regional cultural identity an expression of modern national consciousness. This book is easy to read, with rich and interesting references, including both elite and folk literature, classics and vulgarities, such as local chronicles, genealogies, novels, Cantonese opera, and local textbooks. Readers can easily follow the author's discourse and clarify the historical formation of "Guangdong culture" from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China under the framework of "regional culture" narrative.
- AuthorChing May-bo
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2018