The Druid and the Elephant

The Roman empire has occupied the island of Britannia with its war elephants and legions, suppressing the local tribes. In response, a young boy is sent to Rome to infiltrate the occupying army and learn its ways to help the Britons get their revenge.

Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace

Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper- (middle-) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy, and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian-American employer as well as the company’s Hispanophone and Lusophone employees.

Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China

This book helps readers to understand communication and society in contemporary China through systematic analysis of multimodal discourse at the national, institutional, and individual levels. China has undergone profound changes during the past decade or so.

Theory and Practice from a Cognitive Perspective: Teaching English in Greater China

This book is intended as a theoretical and practical resource for both new and experienced teachers of a second language.

The Power of Storytelling in Teaching Practices: Narratives from Hong Kong and Afar

Featuring storytelling as a central theme, this book examines the role of narrative inquiry in social processes of establishing teacher knowledge and identity to provide new insights into the role of storytelling in education’s teaching and learning paradigm.

East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources & Marginal Voices

For a long time, silk, tea, Sinocentrism, and Eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history.

The 70's Biweekly: Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong

Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s’ Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city.

Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return: Alienation and Identity Transformations

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers’ experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones.

A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) sits at the nexus of constant change, which makes it vitally important for language teachers to engage in continuous development and keep abreast of the sociopolitical milieu in which they are embedded.

開物：科技與文化

本半年刊旨在用通俗曉暢之學術語言介紹科學技術的最新發展以及科技發展對社會與文化之深刻影響，內容涵括科學倫理、醫療人文、數字人文、環境史、歷史地理、以及考古等交叉學科與新興前沿領域。