The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city's official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The author introduces the "Cinema of Transitions," using examples from the 1980s to the present, to study New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background.
Presents an analysis of the security discourse of Chinese policy elites on the major powers in East Asia in relation to China's self-perception as a rising power. This book utilizes International Relations theories systematically to analyze Chinese security perceptions of the United States, Japan and Russia.
In The Strategic Quadrangle five experts on East Asia explore the new shape of power among the major players in the region - Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The authors examine the web of alliances, historical rivalries, and conflicting worldviews that define the relations among these four ...
