Queering masculinity in Hong Kong movies

Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 57-80

  Kong, Travis S K ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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