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Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity prac..
HK$355.5 HK$395.0
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In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways ..
HK$432.0 HK$480.0
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT INSPIRED A GENERATION OF ACTIVISTS
In SLOW DOWN, award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito shows us how nothing but a transformation of our econom..
HK$143.1 HK$159.0
Model: 9789888805648
New research on the history of public housing and squatting in Hong Kong.
In Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing, Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles trace the development of squatting in Hong Kong from 1963 to 1985. The authors reconstruct government policy on squatting through both eth..
HK$270.0 HK$300.0
Model: 9789888754038
An essential resource that outlines the impact of public administration and public policy in Hong Kong.
Since the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997, the often-charged political atmosphere of the region has impacted its public sector, resulting in jurisdictional quandaries and public dis..
HK$265.5 HK$295.0
Model: 9789888754052
A discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature.
Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, ..
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Model: 9780008534448
Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients—or that two judges in the same courthouse give markedly different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different interviewers at the same firm make different decisions about indist..
HK$85.5 HK$95.0
Model: 9789888754014
An ethnography linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa.
Traversing the rapidly urbanizing county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographi..
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Model: 9789629373511
Over the last twenty years Hong Kong society has witnessed dramatic change, and nowhere is this better reflected than in the realm of media and communications. Across the fields of journalism, public relations and advertising, we can see the changing trends in terms of audience consumption and inter..
HK$214.2 HK$238.0
Model: 9781465436504
Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and exp..
HK$225.0 HK$250.0
Model: 9780199540129
'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.'
In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated wha..
HK$110.7 HK$123.0
Model: 9780415278317
There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Emile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to societ..
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