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

Englisch

Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press, 2009

VII, 270 S. : zahlr. Ill., Kt ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

0-226-44856-8 (hbk.) : £29.50 : £11.00

0-226-44857-6 (pbk) : £11.00 hbk. : £29.50 : CIP entry (July)

978-0-226-44856-5 : cloth : alk. paper

978-0-226-44857-2 : pbk. : alk. paper

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.

*Hongkong / Alltag / Einwanderung

*Hongkong / Ausländer / Migration / Einwanderung

*British -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions ; Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration ; Hong Kong (China) -- Ethnic relations

*Hongkong ; Einwanderung ; British / China / Hong Kong / Social conditions ; Hong Kong (China) / Emigration and immigration

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DS796.H79

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 305.9/06912095125 ; 305.906912095125

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: LB 72460: LA-LC Ethnologie / LB 65000-LB 74730 Raum und Ort: Hausforschung, Gemeinde- und Stadtethnologie / Hongkong, Macau

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NK 3740: N Geschichte / NK Weltgeschichte, Darstellungen Allgemeine Geschichte einzelner Staaten und Völker Teilgebiete der Geschichte, Sammelwerke / Hongkong

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: LB 56460: LA-LC Ethnologie / LB 39000-LB 57730 Soziale und politische Organisation und Praxis / Hongkong, Macau

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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