.... While he was in China, he stayed mostly in Beijing and Shanghai, focusing on enlarging the painting collection for the Nationalmuseum. Beijing Grand Hotel des Wagon lits Jiang Jieshi Chiang Kai shek Palace Museum Angkor Wat École Française d’Extrême Orient Forbidden City Hong Kong Indo China...

...This chapter discusses violence against women in the context of broader pro-Beijing and pro-democracy movements. In Hong Kong, the significance of the political transition is apparent in the development of oppositional politics, characterized by movements enabling the collective contestation...

...This chapter discusses the role played by Cixi in the Boxer Uprising. During the uprising, Beijing lay in ruins concealed by smoke, flames, and darkness. Hoping to damage foreign properties, the Boxers instead had dealt a blow to one of Beijing's architectural treasures: fires set in the Dutch...

...Li Yu, one of the few female Chinese film directors, has focused on female characters and issues women face. Lost in Beijing (2007) tells the story of Liu Pingguo, a migrant worker in Beijing who is raped by her boss. When she becomes pregnant, her husband and boss bargain over...

...This chapter explores the overall implementation of the Basic Law in Hong Kong and discusses the developing conventions prevailing in the Beijing-HKSAR relations. By evaluating the content of the Basic Law and its implementation, the new practices and conventions in the Beijing-HKSAR relations can...

... Xun and Xu Guangping seem to have become lovers; the sexual relation, outside marriage, is at the heart of the story. Brothers, set in Beijing, opens and closes in a framing mode, at the Bureau of Public Welfare, where the clerks are sitting and discussing two brothers who have fallen...

...This chapter discusses the subtle differences in the approach implemented by the Hong Kong government and that implemented by London and British diplomats in Beijing. While an aggressive and provocative stance towards leftists was adopted by Governor David Trench, a more cautious assessment...

... and the Mainland in spite of the growing integration and bureaucratic exchanges. The roles of Beijing, the Tung administration, and the Hong Kong people are critically investigated. The chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) holds the key to better communication and understanding...

... of China, Beijing. This chapter discusses the author's return to Beijing, China, fifteen years after she shocked the whole art world by firing two gunshots at the 1989 China Avant-garde Art Exhibition held at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing in February 1989. It also tells about her...

...This chapter discusses the author's first sexual experience. It explains that when she returned from Shanghai to Beijing, China, she always went to the place of his father's friend Wei Bo and his wife. The childless couple, Wei Bo and his wife, treated her as their adopted daughter. Thus...

...Fig. 8. The 1989 China Avant-garde Art Exhibition. The square in front of the National Art Museum, Beijing. (Photograph by Ah-zhen.) Fig. 9. Catalogue for the 1989 China Avant-garde Art Exhibition. (Design by Chen Weiwei.) Fig. 10. Ju Qing standing behind Xiao Xiao, saying something to her...

...This chapter relates Henri Lefebvre's space theory to contemporary Chinese economy and urban landscape, and then examines the manifestations of space as represented in four Chinese films: Shower (1999), Beijing Bicycle (2001), The World (2004...

... and discussion of the issues of marriage. She proposed to a gay activist who was a long-time friend, and a lesbian woman whom she had just met. There would be three of them in a marriage: one gay man and two lesbian women. The wedding ceremony was to claim that bisexuality is not a crime. Beijing Cixous Helene...

... soldiers in Hong Kong to protect Beijing's interests, especially during election time. The post-Tiananmen doubts and the crisis of confidence are described. In addition, the compromise on political reform is examined. Moreover, the CCP's conspiracy theory and the crisis of legitimacy are explained...

...This chapter examines the mediated individual globality in five cities of China: Chengdu, Wuhan, Lanzhou, Changchun, and Beijing. The study provides ample evidence that attitude and values changes defining individual globality are accompanied by changes in behavior, which give meaning...

... is also staged in many of its less famous but equally recognizable 108 locations (especially to Beijing residents). Furthermore, as in Swing in Beijing, even though most of the speakers are not Beijingers by birth, they all convey a sense of belonging to the city. Many refer directly...

...This chapter answers the often-raised question of whether and where these “independent” and therefore “underground” productions are screened in China, by conducting an ethnographic investigation of the film clubs of Beijing and their role in the circulation and discussion of the new documentary...

... costume connoisseurs and critics “Writing on the Fan” “Tihua” morals and social conflicts kunqu dramatization of Young Lovers The Suzhou Taipei Beijing Nanjing The 1699 Peach Blossom Fan The collapse of Ming China Kong Shangren (1648-1718) Ke Jun (b. 1965) Tian Qinxin (contemporary) Li...

... Frances Wong's two children with her parents and her and her husband resigned from their teaching posts. The trains between Hong Kong and Guangzhou had stopped and in going to Guangzhou they had to walk for a week. This chapter describes their life and journey through Beijing where Wong worked under her...

... and it was decided that they must be annihilated. The whole city of Beijing was on the alert. In October 1957, the Draft Programme of Agricultural Development was revised and called the “40 Clauses.” It explicitly stated that starting from 1958, in five, seven, or twelve years, China must basically in all possible...