City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema
by Lisa Odham Stokes, Michael Hoover
Listed under Chinese
Cinema
Foreign
Devils: Expatriates in Hong Kong
by May Holdsworth, Caroline Courtauld
(Hardcover - February 2002)
Hong
Kong Comics: A History of Manhua
by Wendy Siuyi Wong
(Paperback - November 2002)
Hong
Kong's Heroic Bloodshed
by Martin Fitzgerald, Paul Duncan
(Paperback - April 2000)
The
Last Governor: Chris Patten & the Handover of Hong Kong
by Jonathan Dimbleby
(Paperback)
Hong
Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Public Worlds, V. 2)
by M. A. Abbas, Ackbar Abbas
(Paperback - March 1997)
Hong
Kong: Epilogue to an Empire (Vintage Departures)
by Jan Morris
(Paperback - February 1997)
Hong
Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization
by David J. Clarke
(Paperback - February 2002)
The
Hong Kong Ballet
by Siu Wang-Ngai
(Hardcover - February 2003)
Global
Media Spectacle: News War Over Hong Kong
by Chin-Chuan Lee (Editor), et al
(Paperback - October 2002)
Noble
House : A Novel of Contemporary Hong Kong
by James Clavell
Moon
Handbooks Hong Kong : Including Macau and Guangzhou (Hong Kong Handbook,
3rd Ed)
by Kerry Moran
Lonely
Planet Hong Kong (Condensed)
by Dani Valent, Patrick Witton
Hollywood East: Hong Kong Movies and the People Who Make Them
by Stefan Hammond, Michelle Yeoh
Listed under Chinese
Cinema
The
Asian Financial Crisis and the Ordeal of Hong Kong:
Maid
to Order in Hong Kong : An Ethnography of Filipina Workers
by Nicole Constable, Nick Constable
Card catalog description: As middle-class Chinese women have
entered the Hong Kong work force in unprecedented numbers over the past
two decades, the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. Approximately
150,000 individuals now serve on two-year contracts, and the vast majority
are women from the Philippines. Nicole Constable tells their story. Interweaving
her analysis with anecdotal evidence collected in interviews with individual
domestic workers, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives
of Filipina domestic workers. Filipina guest workers flooding into Hong
Kong are implicitly compared to Chinese domestic workers and found wanting.
Local, cultural, and historical factors influence their treatment, as do
preconceptions about gender, ethnicity, and class. Constable explains how
domestic workers are controlled and disciplined by employment agencies,
by employers themselves, and by state policies such as the rule against
working for more than one employer. The forms of discipline range from
physical abuse to intrusive regulations including restrictions on hair
length and the prohibition of lipstick. Filipina workers resist oppression
through legal action and political protests, through their use of household
or public space, and through less confrontational means such as jokes and
pranks. Some find real satisfaction in their work, Constable says, and
she warns against any simplistic characterization of domestic workers as
either empowered or oppressed, class-conscious or unaware.
Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x
8.98 x 6.00
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; ; (May 1997)
ISBN: 0801483824
Martin Yan's Asia : Favorite Recipes from Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia,
the Philippines, and Japan
by Martin Yan, Geoffrey Nilsen (Photographer)
Listed under Asian Cooking
Traditional
Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China, 1840-1980 (Images of Asia)
by Valery M. Garrett
(Hardcover - May 1989)
Culture
Shock! Hong Kong
by Betty Wei, Elizabeth Li
Paperback from Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
Book Published: January, 2003
Taiwan,
Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992: Uncertain Friendships (Twayne's
International History, No 14)
by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Paperback from Twayne Pub
Book Published: April, 1994
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