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Author Ford, Stacilee.

Title Troubling American women : narratives of gender and nation in Hong Kong / Stacilee Ford.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 national identity depending on individual circumstance and historical era.
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Subject Women -- China -- Hong Kong -- Social conditions.
Women.
China -- Hong Kong.
Social conditions.
Women -- China -- Macau -- Social conditions.
China -- Macau.
Americans -- China -- Hong Kong -- History.
Americans.
History.
Americans -- China -- Macau -- History.
Women -- Identity.
Women -- Identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Ford, Stacilee. Troubling American women. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2011467146
ISBN 9789888053698 (electronic book)
9888053698 (electronic book)
9789888083114
9888083112