An edition of Hong Kong: migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
(2009)
Hong Kong
migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
by Caroline Knowles
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2009
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Hong Kong: migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
2009, The University of Chicago Press, University Of Chicago Press
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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