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Hong Kong : migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
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- Creator
- Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- vii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226448565, 9780226448572, 0226448568, 0226448576, 6612445645, 9786612445644, 1282445642, 9780226448589, 0226448584, 9781282445642
- OCLC
- ocn593222252, ocn262429879
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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