Postcolonial patterns and paradoxes: Language and education in Hong Kong and Macao

Comparative Education

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-239

  Bray, Mark ^a   Koo, Ramsey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LANGUAGE; POST-COLONIALISM;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; MACAU;

EID: 3042742392     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0305006042000231365     Document Type: Article

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