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Price: £25.00
Pages: 242
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date:
01 April 2011
Trim Size: 9.10 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9789888083114
Format: Hardcover
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"This essential and engrossing work is the culmination of many years of dedication by a fine scholar to women's history in Hong Kong and its region." - Susanna Hoe, author of The Private Life of Old Hong Kong Western Women in the British Colony, 1841-1941
"Although American women have been coming to Hong Kong since the early nineteenth century, Stacilee Ford is the first scholar to take them seriously. This theoretically informed and empirically grounded book will appeal to anyone interested in Hong Kong a
"Stacilee Ford's idea of gendered American exceptionalism is astute, provocative, and convincing. An American woman who has lived for years in Hong Kong, she possesses the rare sensibility to be at once critical and compassionate, as is evident throughout
"Although American women have been coming to Hong Kong since the early nineteenth century, Stacilee Ford is the first scholar to take them seriously. This theoretically informed and empirically grounded book will appeal to anyone interested in Hong Kong a
"Stacilee Ford's idea of gendered American exceptionalism is astute, provocative, and convincing. An American woman who has lived for years in Hong Kong, she possesses the rare sensibility to be at once critical and compassionate, as is evident throughout
Stacilee Ford has lived in Hong Kong for 18 years. She teaches history and American studies at the University of Hong Kong and is the author of Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale.