Anthropological Essays on a Chinese Metropolis
by
Grant Evans, Maria Tam
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.
Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples,...