A cultural political economy of transnational knowledge brands: Porterian "competitiveness" discourse and its recontextualization in Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 546-573

  Sum, Ngai Ling ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Cultural political economy; Hongkong Pearl River Delta; Knowledge brand; Recontextualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651318856     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.9.4.05sum     Document Type: Article

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