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16 - Maids, Mistresses, and Wives: Rethinking Kinship and the Domestic Sphere in Twenty-First Century Global Hong Kong

from Part IV - Transnational Connections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2019

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Nicole Constable
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Sandra Bamford
Sandra Bamford
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University of Toronto
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The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship , pp. 371 - 390
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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