Hong Kong University Press, an integral part of the University of Hong Kong, has as its central mission the publication of high-quality scholarship on the Asian region and beyond, publishing more than 70 new titles each year by authors from around the world.
Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon
Hsiao-yen Peng
The May Fourth period as an era of Enlightenment rationality has been the mainstream concept in China and elsewhere since the 1930s. This book challenges this common knowledge, arguing that Counter-Enlightenment affectivism, highlighting life philosophy and the power of the affects, manifested itself from the late Qing to the May Fourth and continued to the 1940s.
A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng
Ann L. Silverberg
A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese musical instrument in greater China.
Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949-1966
Qiliang He
This book focuses on a pantheon of preeminent Shanghai-based filmmakers to investigate the making of the new citizenry in Mao-era China (1949-1976).
Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness
Jamie J. Zhao
The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on “vulgar” and “immoral” content grow more prominent.
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