Meeting Place : Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841-1984 /

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Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841-1984 presents detailed empirical studies of day-to-day interactions among people of different cultures in a variety of settings. The broad conclusion--that there was sustained and multilevel contact among men and women of different culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Munn, Christopher (Editor), Sinn, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Intercultural communication > China > Hong Kong.
Hong Kong (China) > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Wang Tao in Hong Kong and the Chinese "other" / Elizabeth Sinn
  • From dried seafood to instant ramen: "Japanese" industrial food and Hong Kong foodways / Yoshiko Nakano
  • The code of silence across the Hong Kong Eurasian community(ies) / Vicky Lee
  • The making of accomplished women: English education for girls in colonial Hong Kong, 1890s-1940s / Patricia P.K. Chiu
  • "No day without a deed to crown it": childhood, empire, and the ministering children's league / David M. Pomfret
  • Western firms and their Chinese compradors: the case of the Jebsen and Chau families / Bert Becker
  • The parallel worlds of seafarers: connections and disconnections on the Hong Kong waterfront (1841-1970) / Stephen Davies
  • Carvalho Yeo and the 1928 Hong Kong Treasury swindle / Christopher Munn.

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