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Recent Publications

 

2020

     

  1. Patricia P. K. Chiu, Promoting All-Round Education for Girls - A History of Heep Yunn School, Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020)

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  2. John M. Carroll, Canton Days: British Life and Death in China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

 

 

2019

     

  1. Xu Guoqi, 難問西東集 [Nanwen Xidong Ji] (Commerical Press, 2019)

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  2. Xu Guoqi, 一戰中的華工 [Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War] (Shanghai People Publishing House, 2019)

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  3. Xu Guoqi, 中國與大戰︰尋求新的國家認同與國際化 [China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization] (Sichuan People's Publishing House, 2019)

 

 

2018

     

  1. Xu Guoqi, 边缘人偶记 (珍藏本) [Xu Guoqi's Personal Memoir (Collector's Edition)] (Sichuan People's Publishing House, 2018)

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  2. Xu Guoqi, Long Journey for Civilization: Stories of Chinese Laborers on the Western Front in WWI (China Intercontinental Press, 2018)

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  3. Xu Guoqi, Aux champs de bataille pour la civilisation: les histoires des travailleurs chinois au front d'ouest pendant la premiere guerre mondiale [Long Journey for Civilization: Stories of Chinese Laborers on the Western Front in WWI] (China Intercontinental Press, 2018)

 

 

2017

     

  1. Priscilla Song, Biomedical Odysseys: Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China (Princeton University Press, 2017)

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  2. Xu Guoqi, 边缘人偶记 [Xu Guoqi's Personal Memoir] (Sichuan People's Publishing House, 2017)

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  3. Xu Guoqi, 为文明出征：第一次世界大战期间西线战场的华工故事 [Long Journey for Civilization: Stories of Chinese Laborers on the Western Front in WWI] (China Intercontinental Press, 2017)

 

 

2016

     

  1. Frank Dikötter, The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016)

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  2. Robert Peckham, Epidemics in Modern Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

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  3. Xu Guoqi, Asia and the Great War: A Shared History (Oxford University Press, 2016)

 

 

2015

     

  1. Frank Dikötter, The Discourse of Race in Modern China, Revised and Expanded Second Edition (New York: Oxford University Press; London: Hurst, 2015)

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  2. David Pomfret, Youth and Empire: Trans-colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia (Stanford University Press, 2015)

 

 

2014

     

  1. Peter Cunich, Old Hong Kong (Hong Kong: FormAsia, 2014)

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  2. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, Red Globalization. The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

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  3. Xu Guoqi, Chinese and Americans: A Shared History (Harvard University Press, 2014)

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  4. Xu Guoqi, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Harvard University Press, February 2011; Chinese edition was published by Shanghai People’s Press, summer 2014)

 

 

2013

     

  1. John M. Carroll, A Concise History of Hong Kong (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007; Hong Kong University Press, 2007). Chinese translation 香港簡史 (Chung Hwa Book Company, 2013)

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  2. Frank Dikötter, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945-1957 (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013)

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  3. David M. Pomfret, Kam Louie and Julia Kuehn, Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China: Community, Culture and Communication (University of British Columbia Press, 2013)

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  4. Charles Schencking, The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)

 

 

2012

     

  1. Bert Becker, Michael Jebsen 1835-1899: Reeder und Politiker: Eine Biographie [Michael Jebsen 1835-1899: Shipowner and Politician: A Biography] (Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2012)

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  2. Peter Cunich, A History of the University of Hong Kong, vol. 1, 1911-1945 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012)

 

 

2011

     

  1. Staci Ford, Troubling American Women: Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011)

 

 

2010

     

  1. Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe (London: Bloomsbury; New York: Walker Books, 2010)

 

 

2008

     

  1. Peter Cunich and Lawrence M.W. Chiu, HKU SPACE and Its Alumni: The First Fifty Years (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)

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  2. Frank Dikötter, The Age of Openness: China before Mao (Berkeley: University of California Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)

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  3. Staci Ford, Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)

 

 

2007

     

  1. Bert Becker, Georg Michaelis: Preußischer Beamter, Reichskanzler, Christlicher Reformer 1857-1936. Eine Biographie [Georg Michaelis: Prussian Official, Imperial Chancellor, and Christian Reformer, 1857-1936: A Biography] (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2007)

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  2. Frank Dikötter, Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China (New York: Columbia University Press); also published as Things modern: Material culture and everyday life in China (London: Hurst, 2007)

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  3. John M. Carroll, Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong (Harvard University Press, 2005; paperback reprint, Hong Kong University Press, 2007)