Clara Law's Floating Life and Hong Kong-Australian 'flexible citizenship'

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 278-300

  Mitchell, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hong Kong Cinema; Identity; Migration; Neo Confucianism; Transnational

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA;

EID: 0037357997     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141987032000054439     Document Type: Article

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