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Hong Kong : migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys / Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper.
LIBRA DS796.H79 B75 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knowles, Caroline, 1954-
- Series:
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British.
- Social conditions.
- Hong Kong (China)--Emigration and immigration.
- Hong Kong (China).
- British--China--Hong Kong--Social conditions.
- Hong Kong (China)--Ethnic relations.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Beginnings and endings
- Arriving in postcolonial Hong Kong
- Framing migration
- Framing migrants
- Framing Hong Kong Chineseness
- Framing whiteness
- Framing empire and after
- Framing the investigation
- Arranging the dead
- Soldiering on
- Drying the flag
- Making new lives
- An ordinary life(style)
- Day-trip to Shenzhen
- Inside the expatriate bubble
- Fabricating the city
- Moving on
- The English business
- The schools and language game
- Trading places
- Old China hands
- Riding the waves
- Managing dis/location
- Island life
- "Britain saddens me"
- Lifestyle migration
- The baby
- Working global systems
- Corporate lives/wives
- America and the matrix of global dominance
- "Choosers and losers"
- Chungking mansions
- Central Kowloon mosque
- Indian food
- Life at the top
- The peak
- Ladies who lunch
- Tea?
- Service
- Serving-class migrants
- Living inside others' lives
- Sundays in Statue Square
- Relationships with the Philippines
- Routes out
- Boys' night out
- Night and day in Wanchai
- Wanchai warriors
- The "girlies"
- Clubbing
- Club scenes
- United Services Recreation Club
- Poolside with the vicar's wife
- Poolside with the diver
- "It's time to pack up and go home"
- Kowloon Cricket Club
- On patrol
- Migration revisited
- Endings and beginnings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226448565
- 0226448568
- 9780226448572
- 0226448576
- OCLC:
- 262429879
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