10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHUNGKING»
Discover the use of
Chungking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Chungking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ghetto at the Center of the World:
Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
We come to understand the day-to-day realities of globalization through the stories of entrepreneurs from Africa carting cell phones in their luggage to sell back home and temporary workers from South Asia struggling to earn money to bring ...
2
Studying
Chungking Express
Studying Chungking Express considers these historical details but also the key issues of film form, author-ship, representation and identity.
3
The Chinese City Between Two Worlds
ROBERT A. KAPP In 19o5 Archibald Little, the Englishman who introduced
steam navigation to the Upper Yangtze region, wrote glowingly of the prospects
for Chungking. French visitors, he said, predicted that Chungking would become
"the ...
Mark Elvin, George William Skinner, 1974
4
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences
What effect will the Southern operations have on the settlement of the China
Incident? More pressure can be brought to bear on the Chungking regime by
immediately exercising the rights of a belligerent against it and by getting rid of
hostile ...
Story of three generations of a cultivated Chinese family during the war in China.
Of Hong Kong's rock-bottom establishments, none is more notorious than
Chungking Mansion, an inspiration for the Wong Kar-Wai film Chungking
Express. Although it occupies a prime spot at 40 Nathan Rd., between the
Holiday Inn Golden ...
7
China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in ...
Chungking: A. Different. Time. and. A. Different. Place. When the Japanese army
captured Hankow in October 1938, Chiang Kai-shek moved the seat of Chinese
government to Chungking, a city in the remote southwestern province of ...
Stephen R. MacKinnon, 1990
8
Free China's much-bombed capital fights on
It is Free China, whose capital is Chungking. On March 15 President Roosevelt
declared that China, too, would get its share of the concrete aid-to-democracies
voted in the Lease-Lend Bill. The weapons will soon be moving westward as well
...
It was reserved for China's new capital of Chungking to furnish the most frightful
example of bombing of a big city in the history of modern war. Normally
Chungking, far up the Yangtze, is protected by low- lying clouds. On May 3 and 4
the skies ...
10
Hong Kong & Macau. Con Cartina. Ediz. Inglese
SLEEPING. CHEAP. IN. CHUNGKING. Say 'budget accommodation' and 'Hong
Kong' in the one breath and everyone thinks of Chungking Mansions (Map p92;
36-44 Nathan Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui; MTR Tsim Sha Tsui exit F), a place like no
other ...
Andrew Stone, Chung Wah Chow, Reggie Ho, 2008
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHUNGKING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Chungking is used in the context of the following news items.
Giant final wave of 2015 Fantasia festival films includes “ATTACK …
... with camerawork by Christopher Doyle (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, CHUNGKING EXPRESS, HERO). Selected at Hong Kong Film Festival, ... «FANGORIA, Jul 15»
Support for rule on Legco chief chats
There are many Africans staying in Chungking Mansions. You go there. Get half a dozen Africans," Tsang said, in a recording leaked to Hong ... «Hong Kong Standard, Jul 15»
LegCo President Jasper Tsang jokes about clearing Occupy sites …
At one point in his speech, Tsang joked about clearing pro-democracy protestors from occupation sites by telling Africans living in Chungking ... «Shanghaiist, Jul 15»
IHT Retrospective | 1940: Hong Kong Civilians Prepare To Leave
... that the Burma-Yunnan highway be closed to transport of military supplies to the provisional Chinese government capital at Chungking. «New York Times, Jun 15»
Crystal meth - Hong Kong in denial over drug epidemic
"Almost any of the touts outside Chungking Mansions will be able to fix you up with anything you like. It's not just copy watches you know.". «South China Morning Post, Jun 15»
J-15 fighters being prepped for Beijing's V-J Day parade
It was the Kuomintang which actually led the majority of the fighting against the Japanese in Chungking during WWII. At the time of the war, the ... «WantChinaTimes, Jun 15»
'Becoming Chinese': Meet the first Somali with a Home Return Permit
So for that first year, I lived in Chungking Mansions. My clients are all ethnic Somalis living in Kenya, visiting Hong Kong and shipping ... «South China Morning Post, Jun 15»
'Rebels of the Neon God': Revisiting a Taiwanese classic
... Being Wild” and “Chungking Express,” movies that also explored emotional isolationism within a thriving but impersonal urban environment. «SFGate, Jun 15»
Red 'Ferrari' takes MTR handicap access to the next level
... paperwork to back its provenance which its owner showed to the police when he was stopped in Tsim Sha Tsui outside Chungking Mansions ... «EJ Insight, Jun 15»
Coconuts HK Weekly Planner: June 15-21
HKD5 of every ticket sold will go towards funds for the Christian Action's Chungking Mansions Services Centre Choir for refugees and asylum ... «Coconuts Hong Kong, Jun 15»
