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BL
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1033792
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b788162
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| Main Entry
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Knowles, Caroline,1954-
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| Title & Author
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Hong Kong : : migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys /\ Caroline Knowles, Douglas Harper.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago ;London :: University of Chicago Press,, 2009.
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| Series Statement
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Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (270 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0226448584
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: 1282445642
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: 6612445645
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: 9780226448589
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: 9781282445642
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: 9786612445644
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0226448568
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0226448576
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9780226448565
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9780226448572
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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This work is a tour of Hong Kong's postcolonial urban landscape innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. It offers an insight into the city's recent history and global appeal.
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British-- China-- Hong Kong-- Social conditions.
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British-- Social conditions.
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Britter-- sociala förhållanden-- Kina-- Hongkong.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Ethnic relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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Hong Kong (China), Emigration and immigration.
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Hong Kong (China), Ethnic relations.
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China, Hong Kong.
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Hongkong, emigration och immigration.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.9/06912095125
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| LC Classification
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DS796.H79A25 2009eb
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| Added Entry
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Harper, Douglas A.
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