Hong Kong : migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys / Caroline Knowles, Douglas Harper.

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Main Author: Knowles, Caroline, 1954-
Other Authors: Harper, Douglas A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Series:Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
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505 0 |a 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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