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Gender, Place & Culture
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Migrating identities: gender, whiteness and Britishness in post-colonial Hong Kong

Las Identidades Migrando: Género, Blancura, y la ‘Britishness’ in Poscolonial Hong Kong

Pages 45-60 | Published online: 12 Feb 2008

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