Troubling American women : narratives of gender and nation in Hong Kong

Troubling American women : narratives of gender and nation in Hong Kong /

This book analyzes the cultural production (narratives) of selected American, Chinese American, and "Americanized" Chinese women who lived in Hong Kong and Macao during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the diverse ways women envisioned and communicated their notions of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Stacilee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Women > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions.
Women > China > Macau > Social conditions.
Americans > China > Hong Kong > History.
Americans > China > Macau > History.
Women > Identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Americans
Women > Identity
Women > Social conditions
China > Hong Kong
China > Macau
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "American Girls" in Three Acts; 2. "I'm in the Middle of a War, I'm in the Middle of a Life!"; 3. "A Second Voice of America"; 4. Home for the Handover; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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