"Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Ko ..."
"Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as "chopsocky," and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world. From its beginning in 1909 with the silent short Stealing the Roast Duck to the martial arts classic Enter the Dragon (1973) to Peter Chan's Perhaps Love (2005), a reinvention of Chinese musicals via Hollywo ..."
"The world first took notice of Hong Kong cinema in the 1970s, when Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon brought a new level of psychological realism to the "chop socky" movies being made up until that point. But it wasn't until the 1980s that a new generation of directors and stars--a moviemaking system, in fact--reached its boiling point, and American audiences began to hear about John Woo's "heroic bloodshed" films and Jacki ..."
"Despite the industry being shutdown by two world wars, having its martial arts films dismissively labeled as "chopsocky," and operating on shoestring budgets, the films of Hong Kong have been praised and imitated all over the world. From its beginning in 1909 with the silent short Stealing the Roast Duck to the martial arts classic Enter the Dragon (1973) to Peter Chan's Perhaps Love (2005), a reinvention of Chinese musicals via Hollywo ..."
"The world first took notice of Hong Kong cinema in the 1970s, when Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury and Enter the Dragon brought a new level of psychological realism to the "chop socky" movies being made up until that point. But it wasn't until the 1980s that a new generation of directors and stars--a moviemaking system, in fact--reached its boiling point, and American audiences began to hear about John Woo's "heroic bloodshed" films and Jacki ..."
"This new book is based on Cash's Textbook of Neurology. It covers Basic Concepts in Neurology, Neurological and Neuromuscular Conditions, Lifetime Disorders of Childhood Onset, and Treatment Approaches to Neurological Rehabilitation. Neurological Physiotherapy has been completely updated and now features a new larger format, 2-colour throughout, and more than 140 illustrations. The contents have been updated to bring this book totally u ..."
"... His Companion)/'91 san diu hap liu/'91 shen diao xia lu (1991) and Mahjong
Dragon (Mahjong Flying Dragon)/Lut cheuk ... Shu Qi, and Zhao Wei (Vicki Zhao)
, a coproduction of Columbia Pictures and Columbia Pictures Film Production
Asia. ... Huadu Chronicles: The Blade of the Rose (Twins Effect 2)/Chin gei bin 2:
Dut diy daai chin/Qianji bian 2: Hua dou da ... Jackie Chan in both Not Scared to
Die/Ding tian li di/Deng tin laap dei ..."
"Film critic Li Cheuk-to joined the editorial board of Film Bi-weekly in 1980 and
was its editor in chief (1983—1986). He has been a programmer for the Hong
Kong International Film Festival for 17 years, in charge of its Hong Kong ...
Director Li Han-hsiang was born in Jinzhou, Lianing Province, and he studied
Western painting at the prestigious National Art Institute in Beijing. He came to
Hong Kong in 1948, and he began working in ..."
"Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, is the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. This book--a seminal study in its field--provides a simple yet eloquent introduction to the discipline, explaining what a dendrochronologist does both in the field and in the laboratory. Authors Stokes and Smiley first explain the basic principles of tree-ring dating, then describe details of the process, step by step, ..."