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Can Hong Kong Exceptionalism Last? Dilemmas of Governance and Public Administration over Five Decades, 1970s–2020
Can Hong Kong Exceptionalism Last? Dilemmas of Governance and Public Administration over Five Decades, 1970s–20202021

This book carries decades of academic observations and the author’s personal political experience. It reviews and reflects on the past trajectory of governance and administration, identifying strengths and capabilities as well as constraints and vulnerabilities of Hong Kong as a polity and society, while charting its course of ‘exceptionalism’ within a new context and under changing conditions...

Author(s):
Anthony Cheung Bing-leung
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470 pages

ISBN: 9789629375911

School Counselling in an Asian Cultural Context: Insights from Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region
School Counselling in an Asian Cultural Context: Insights from Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region2021

This book focuses on the ways in which cultural setting influences the practice of school counselling, its effectiveness, and the experience of young people as they engage in counselling in schools...

Author(s):
Mark Harrison
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190 pages

ISBN: 9781003144571

A City’s Educational Heritage: Stories of Kowloon Schools
A City’s Educational Heritage: Stories of Kowloon Schools2021

This book covers the early urban development of Kowloon, local education history, interviews of the school community, art education and literature. Readers are guided along their familiar landscape to revisit landmarks, discover the footprints of transformation and trace how art education in Kowloon schools has formed the cultural and artistic ambience of the community...

Author(s):
John Lee Chi-Kin, Lau Ying, Chan Chi-tak and Hong Kong Museum of Education
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196 pages

ISBN: 9789888759231

Pathologies of Climate Governance: International Relations, National Politics and Human Nature
Pathologies of Climate Governance: International Relations, National Politics and Human Nature 2021

This book uncovers the fundamental pathologies causing the worsening climate crisis. It distills decades of global climate negotiations to reveal the features of international relations that make climate action so difficult, and explores the politics of climate change...

Author(s):
Paul Harris
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271 pages

ISBN: 9781108423410

Discerning the Differences in Chinese Characters
Discerning the Differences in Chinese Characters2020

Variation in sound, written form, stroke order, and function of component is analysed and illustrated using the characters listed in the primary school curriculum in Hong Kong.

Author(s):
Lam Ho-cheong
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128 pages

ISBN: 9789888635511