Main entry:

Knowles, Caroline, 1954-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Fieldwork encounters and discoveries

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

"Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper's point of entry into Hong Kong is the unusual position of the British expatriates who chose to remain in the city after the transition. Now a relatively insignificant presence, British migrants in Hong Kong have become intimately connected with another small minority group there: immigrants from Southeast Asia. The lives, journeys, and stories of these two groups bring to life a place where the past continues to resonate for all its residents, even as the city hurtles into a future marked by transience and transition. By skillfully blending ethnographic and visual approaches, Hong Kong offers a fascinating guide to a city that is at once unique in its recent history and exemplary of our globalized present."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9780226448565 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226448568 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226448572 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0226448576 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

British China Hong Kong Social conditions.
Britanniques Chine Hongkong Conditions sociales.
British Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Alltag
Einwanderung
Ausländer
Migration
Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration.
Hong Kong (China) Ethnic relations.
China Hong Kong.
Hongkong

Added entries:

Harper, Douglas A.
Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264271
Call No.: BIB 195616
Status: Available