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Globalization After the Pandemic
Thoughts on the Coronavirus
QIN HUI
Translated by David Ownby
“A stunning reflection on the successes and failures of fighting the coronavirus in China and the rest of the world.”
—From the introduction by David Ownby
Qin Hui offers a bracing examination of the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on political institutions in both China and the West. China has achieved success in imposing coercive lockdowns that got the virus under control after the disastrous outbreak in Wuhan, but it will be a challenge to prevent the normalization of emergency measures from worsening human right conditions in normal times. The West, in contrast, must learn how democracies can efficiently enter and exit a state of emergency.
QIN HUI is a retired professor of history, Tsinghua University, and is now adjunct professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
DAVID OWNBY is professor of history at the Université de Montréal.
$29.95 cloth 978-988-237-231-3
Between Two Shores
T. L. TSIM
“Deserves to reach a wide readership. . . . Convincing and moving on a subject of the greatest importance to today—the internal dynamics and confusions of the Chinese identity in a cosmopolitan world.”
—John Minford, translator of The Story of the Stone
This is a story that begins in California and ends in China—a detective tale with a subtle love interest. After a Chinese American man dies in mysterious circumstances near Hangzhou, his wife, an Irish American, goes to China to find out what really happened. In the course of her investigation, she teams up with an academic from Hong Kong who lost his sister in the same “accident.” As the story unfolds, it becomes a profound exploration of cultural identity in crisis.
“Brilliant . . . [at] capturing the cultural and political differences and making predictions regarding the future of Hong Kong and China.”
—Joan Plaisted, former U .S . ambassador
T. L. TSIM (the pen name of Tsim Tak Lung) is a a broadcaster and political commentator. He wrote a weekly column for the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Economic Journal for many years.
$19.95* paper 978-988-237-237-5
OCTOBER 280 pages / 6" x 9"
From Scalpel to Spade
A Surgeon’s Road to Ithaka
ARTHUR VAN LANGENBERG
In this memoir, Arthur van Langenburg, a Hong Kong doctor who worked as a surgeon for more than forty-five years and later turned his hand to his other great passion, gardening, tells the story of a life well lived. He describes real-life cases and the medical causes of illnesses of the colon, his specialty, including many incredible stories of life-saving operations. At times amusing, at times heartbreaking, and at times instructive, From Scalpel to Spade is structured around the metaphor of the homeward journey to Ithaka.
ARTHUR VAN LANGENBERG has lived in Hong Kong all his life except for four years in Macau during World War II and two years in Britain undergoing medical training. He has practiced surgery for some fifty years, first at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, and then in private practice. He is the author of Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong (2014) and Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener's Journal (2005), and he is a regular contributor on gardening to various periodicals.
$35.00 cloth 978-988-237-228-3
A Medical History of Hong Kong
The Development and Contributions of Outpatient Services
MOIRA M. W. CHAN-YEUNG
“[Offers] insights into why health systems need to transform in response to changing needs and the dynamic environmental context.”
—E . K . Yeoh, director, Centre for Health Systems and
Policy Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
This book focuses on a topic that has had immeasurable impact on public health in Hong Kong—the development of outpatient medical services. In the early twentieth century, the Chinese elite organized and operated a number of Chinese public dispensaries in Hong Kong and Kowloon, initially to reduce the prevalence of “dump bodies” on the streets during epidemics. After WWII, the government took over all the dispensaries and operated them as general outpatient clinics. Over the years, more clinics were developed, which helped improve the health indices of the population to be comparable to those of Western countries by the 1970s.
MOIRA CHAN-YEUNG is professor emeritus of medicine at the University of British Columbia and honorary clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. This is her fifth book on Hong Kong medical history.
$55.00 cloth 978-988-237-220-7
