Hong Kong
Subtitle: migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
By: Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper.
Contributors: Harper, Douglas A.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780226448565; 9780226448572
Subjects: British -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions; Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration; Hong Kong (China) -- Ethnic relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings and endings; title: Arriving in postcolonial Hong Kong; title: Framing migration; title: Framing migrants; title: Framing Hong Kong Chineseness; title: Framing whiteness; title: Framing empire and after; title: Framing the investigation; title: Arranging the dead; title: Soldiering on; title: Drying the flag; title: Making new lives; title: An ordinary life(style); title: Day-trip to Shenzhen; title: Inside the expatriate bubble; title: Fabricating the city; title: Moving on; title: The English business; title: The schools and language game; title: Trading places; title: Old China hands; title: Riding the waves; title: Managing dis/location; title: Island life; title: "Britain saddens me"; title: Lifestyle migration; title: The baby; title: Working global systems; title: Corporate lives/wives; title: America and the matrix of global dominance; title: "Choosers and losers"; title: Chungking mansions; title: Central Kowloon mosque; title: Indian food; title: Life at the top; title: The peak; title: Ladies who lunch; title: Tea?; title: Service; title: Serving-class migrants; title: Living inside others' lives; title: Sundays in Statue Square; title: Relationships with the Philippines; title: Routes out; title: Boys' night out; title: Night and day in Wanchai; title: Wanchai warriors; title: The 'girlies'; title: Clubbing; title: Club scenes; title: United Services Recreation Club; title: Poolside with the vicar's wife; title: Poolside with the diver; title: "It's time to pack up and go home"; title: Kowloon Cricket Club; title: On patrol; title: Migration revisited; title: Endings and beginnings.