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      • Proverse Hong Kong

        Proverse Hong Kong is a Hong Kong-based press publishing local and international authors with local and international content, including:  English-language and translated literary novels, short story and poetry collections, detective stories, mysteries and thrillers, non-fiction (biography, memoirs, travel, china missionary, education and law-court history; source materials including annotated archival transcriptions) ; poetry anthologies; YA fiction; books for students; academic studies (mainly with a Hong Kong and Hong Kong China focus). Formats: paperback, hardback, POD, e-books, audio. Publication awards: from local and international cultural bodies. Events: Spring and Autumn Receptions in Hong Kong with prize announcements and awards, book launches, authors’ brief talks. Prizes: We offer two annual international prizes for writing previously unpublished in English: 1) the Proverse Prize  for book-length works of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry; 2) the Proverse Poetry Prize  for single poems (max 30 lines). Open to all, 18+ irrespective of residence, nationality or citizenship.  Annual entry periods: 7 May-30 June. More information: proversepublishing.com

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        Colonialism & imperialism
        May 2017

        Hong Kong and British culture, 1945–97

        by Mark Hampton. Series edited by Andrew S. Thompson, John Mackenzie

        This book examines the British cultural engagement with Hong Kong in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how the territory fit unusually within Britain's decolonisation narratives and served as an occasional foil for examining Britain's own culture during a period of perceived stagnation and decline. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published primary sources, Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 investigates such themes as Hong Kong as a site of unrestrained capitalism, modernisation, and good government, as well as an arena of male social and sexual opportunity. It also examines the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese embraced British culture, and the competing predictions that British observers made concerning the colony's return to Chinese sovereignty. An epilogue considers the enduring legacy of British colonialism.

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        March 2000

        Zen

        by Chung-Yuan, Chang

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        April 2007

        Der Wandlungsleib des Dong Yuan

        Die Geschichte eines malerischen Oeuvres

        by Unverzagt, Christian

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        November 2012

        Die Plünderung des Yuanming yuan

        Imperiale Beutenahme im britisch-französischen Chinafeldzug von 1860

        by Eben v. Racknitz, Ines

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Asia in Western fiction

        by Robin Winks

        Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.

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        July 2018

        Die wertvolle Medizin des Waldes

        Wie die Natur Körper und Geist stärkt

        by Qing Li / Übersetzt von Förs, Katharina

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        May 1997

        Chinesische Geistergeschichten

        Herausgegeben und übersetzt von Rainer Schwarz

        by Yuan Mei, Rainer Schwarz, Rainer Schwarz, Rainer Schwarz

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        Late Merovingian France

        by Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding

        This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.

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        January 1986

        Jou Pu Tuan

        Ein erotischer Roman aus der Ming-Zeit

        by Li Yü / Übersetzt von Kuhn, Franz

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        January 1980

        Im Land der Frauen

        Roman

        by Li Ju-tschen

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        September 2003

        Lu Jong

        Die älteste tibetische Bewegungslehre von den Mönchen aus den Bergen zur Heilung von Körper und Geist

        by Lobsang, Tulku Lama / Deutsch Dahortsang, Loten; Herausgegeben von Garattoni, Jutta Li

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        September 1999

        Die Meister Li-Trilogie

        Drei Romane in einem Band

        by Hughart, Barry

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        September 2010

        Der Tanz des Schamanen

        Chinesische Strategien für starke und liebende Männer

        by Li, Christine; Krautwald, Ulja

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        June 2004

        Donner, Wind und Berg

        Die acht chinesischen Persönlichkeitstypen und das Geheimnis männliche r Potenz

        by Li, Christine; Krautwald, Ulja

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