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  Hong Kong Essays Anthropology Cultural Changes
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Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: HKESSAY

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This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities and cliches of East meets West, traditional China, junks sailing Victoria Harbor or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, instead it looks at modern Hong Kong.

These essays explore the themes of Cultural Studies, Gender and Kinship, the transition from tradition to modernity, Religion and Beliefs, and Language.

Table of Contents:

# Bad Boys and Bad Language
# Herbal Tea Shops in Hong Kong as a gathering place and more

# Hong Kong Ethnicity
# Documentary Film legacy
# The New Bank of China buildings
# Ghosts and the New Governor
# New Territories customary succession
# The Paper Offering of Hong Kong
# Motherhood in Hong Kong
# Performing
# Female Inheritance and Affection<
# and more

CONDITION: from the University of Hawaii Press, new from publisher with light wear from shipping to top back corner of DJ. NEW 335 pages including glossary of Chinese terms

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