Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the 13 years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. Filled with first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong families over nearly two decades, this book looks at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful and failed efforts at migration and settlement.
Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the 13 years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997. Filled with first-hand stor...
Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997--and nearly half of those returned within several years of leaving. Filled with detailed, first-hand stories of nine Hong Kong families over nearly two decades, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers is an exhaustive and intimate look at the forces behind Hong Kong families' successful and failed efforts at migration and settlement.
This multi-faceted study was begun in 1991, when migration was attributed primarily to the political anxieties of the time and the...
Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997--and nearly half of...