Chungking mansions: A center of "low-end globalization"

Ethnology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-183

  Mathews, Gordon ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ethnic interactions; Hong Kong; Low end globalization; Traders

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ASYLUM SEEKER; ETHNIC GROUP; GLOBALIZATION; HISTORIC BUILDING;

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

EID: 48549088116     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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