Transnational collaborations, local competitiveness: Mapping the geographies of filmmaking in/through Hong Kong

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-357

  Lim, Kean Fan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Clusters; Film production; Global production networks; Hong Kong

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 33748849235     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2006.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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