Hong Kong: migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys

In: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

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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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Hong Kong: migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys

In: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries

Knowles, Caroline; Harper, Douglas A.

Knowles, Caroline; Harper, Douglas A.

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In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city's postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. 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 bec

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