Art and Place: Essays on Art from a Hong Kong Perspective |
David Clarke ISBN: 9622094155 A collection of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last 10 years, offering a personal chronicle of the Hong Kong art world during a time of great change. Many of the essays concern the work of local artists, but Western and Chinese artists...(read more) |
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Art Treasures from Shanghai and Hong Kong |
Publisher: University Museum and Art Gallery ISBN: 9628038109 Sorry - no summary available. |
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China Products, Hong Kong and Macau |
Ushioda Tokuko, Shimao Shinzo ISBN: 4894192969 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Chinese Festivals in Hong Kong |
Barbara E. Ward ISBN: 9628681664 "Chinese Festivals in Hong Kong" presents details about cultural photography....(read more) |
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Comic Artists: Asia |
Rika Sugiyama ISBN: 0060589248 Presenting the work of 12 promising comic, anime and manga artists, as well as the secrets of their illustration techniques. Some fully utilise the latest digital tools, while others create their drawings without computers at all. |
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Designed in Hong Kong |
John Heskett ISBN: 9889778416 (Hardcover)...(read more) |
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Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) |
Lisa Stokes ISBN: 0810855208 (Hardcover)...(read more) |
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Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging |
Simon Go ISBN: 1568983905 (Paperback) Unlike Western medicine that's generally packaged in antiseptic whiteness with frightening symbols to beware, Chinese pharmaceuticals look lively, exotic and certainly tasteful. Simon Go, author and a lover of Chinese medical packaging,...(read more) |
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Hong Kong Architecture: The Aesthetics of Density |
Editor: Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani ISBN: 379131324X (Architecture & Design)...(read more) |
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Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization (Envisioning Asia) |
David Clarke ISBN: 1861891121 This volume offers an account of recent and current art made in Hong Kong in the years leading up to the handover of British sovereignty to China in 1997. This process differed from many other experiences of the post-colonial elsewhere in the world in...(read more) |
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Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self |
Yingchi Chu ISBN: 0700717463 (Hardcover) Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong Kong Cinema considers the different political...(read more) |
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Hong Kong Comics |
Wendy Siuyi Wong ISBN: 1568982690 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Hong Kong Toy Story: Works of Creative Units |
Lui Tai-lok & Yiu Wai-hung ISBN: 9889761076 "Hong Kong Toy Story" talks about art and design. |
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Jade Screen: The Essential Guide to Hong Kong Cinema |
Richard Cooper ISBN: 0954428129 (Paperback) Jade Screen: The Essential Guide to Hong Kong Cinema features one-on-one interviews with Hong Kong's most famous players such as John Woo, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Gordon Liu and Anthony Wong. The book also features numerous film...(read more) |
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Picturing Hong Kong: Photography 1855-1910 |
Roberta Wue ISBN: 0807614246 (Hardcover) A record of the landscape, architecture and people of Hong Kong with an insight into the history and sociology of the infant colony. |
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Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment |
David Bordwell ISBN: 0674002148 (Paperback) Since the 1970s, Hong Kong has been home to arguably the world's most energetic, imaginative mass-market film industry. At its peak it surpassed nearly all western countries in number of films released, ruled the east Asian market, and...(read more) |
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The Urban Design of Impermance: Streets, Places and Spaces in Hong Kong |
Peter Cookson Smith ISBN: 9889865378 [Illustrated]...(read more) |
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Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China, 1840-1980 (Images of Asia) |
Valery M. Garrett ISBN: Valery M. Garrett (Hardcover) Much has been written on the courtly dress and formal costumes of the Qing Dynasty, but this book is the first to offer a detailed account of the clothing worn by ordinary people. Valery Garrett's study looks at how life was lived, and the...(read more) |
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