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Explore new books from Hong Kong

September 21, 2017

Ten new titles are now available on Hong Kong Scholarship Online (HKSO), adding to the Art, Film, Television, and Radio, History, Music, Society and Culture, and Sociology modules.

These books cover a diverse range of subjects, from the growth of Shanghai in the nineteenth cetury and its impact on the art world to the martial arts films of Hong Kong and their influence on the city, and from a new look into the First Opium War in the 1830s to the spread of Japanese and Korean pop culture in Chinese cities.

Click on the book covers to find out more:

                         Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai        Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation        Merchants of War and Peace: British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War        Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture        Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism

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HKSO is delivered by University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO), which brings together the best scholarly publishing from around the world. UPSO is available by annual subscription or purchase to libraries and institutions, so ask your librarian if you have access. If you don’t, then recommend this essential resource to your librarian today.