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  • A Free Press, If You Can Keep It

    What Natural Language Processing Reveals About Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong

    by Giovanna Maria Dora Dore, Arya D. McCarthy, James A. Scharf ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Brief introduces a novel research approach to investigate freedom of the press in Hong Kong. The authors pair computational analyses from the field of natural language processing with qualitative content analysis of patterns of journalistic practice in volatile political settings. Together, these shed light on the evolution of press freedom in Hong Kong since its return to Chinese sovereignty ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Adopted Territory

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    by Eleana J. Kim ...
    Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Contemporary Chinese Politics

    New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies

    Edited by Allen Carlson, Mary E. Gallagher, Kenneth Lieberthal, Melanie Manion ...
    Contemporary Chinese Politics: Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies considers how new and diverse sources and methods are changing the study of Chinese politics. Contributors spanning three generations in China studies place their distinct qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches in the framework of the discipline and point to challenges or opportunities (or both) of adapting new ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • English Language Education Across Greater China

    Edited by Dr. Anwei Feng ...
    Series Book 80 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Kongish

    Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect

    by Tong King Lee ...
    Series series Elements in Applied Linguistics
    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 ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Witness Experience

    Testimony at the ICTY and Its Impact

    by Kimi Lynn King, James David Meernik ...
    This book provides the most comprehensive and scientific assessment to date of what it means to appear before war crimes tribunals. This ground-breaking analysis, conducted with the cooperation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Victims and Witnesses Section, examines the positive and negative impact that testifying has on those who bear witness to the horrors ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era

    The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

    by Francis L.F. Lee, Joseph M. Chan ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks, facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional media remains an important arena where protesters and their targets contest for public support. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Invisible Asians

    Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

    by Kim ParkNelson ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story—all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees’ have been rendered racially invisible, and how that ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The English Language in Hong Kong

    Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

    by Stephen Evans ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years. Using substantial sets of diachronic and synchronic data, it traces the changing status and functions of English in relation to spoken Cantonese, Mandarin and written Chinese in the key domains of government, education and business. The author tracks the rise of English ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • China, the New Paper Tiger

    by John Tierney ...
    China has been China for four thousand years; concealment may be a reaction to a past redolent of autocracy, but it seems prevelent in all aspects of Chinese life. Confucious' idea of keeping the masses ignorant in order to make them easier to govern remains in force. We in America have had, or had until just recently, an underlying assumption that things are going to get better and better. This ... Read more

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  • The Han

    China's Diverse Majority

    by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity. Based on research she conducted among native and migrant ... Read more

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