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Opinions differ on this. Sinn (1998; cf. 1995) for example, traces the continued emergence of native-place associations in Hong Kong through the 1950s and their importance to date, yet Wong (1995) talks of Hong Kong identity as 'receding'.
25 Earlier Salaff and Wong (1997) had emphasised the importance of 'network capital' in motivating emigrations. See also articles in Skeldon (1994 and 1995) on the Hong Kong emigration process.
26 It may be the nostalgia for a vanished Hong Kong which has most afflicted Hong Kongers since the end of British colonialism (personal communication, Yang Tsung-Rong 5 December 2000).
27 Tapp (1996).
28 Personal communication, Prasit Leepreecha, 1995.
29 [email protected]' in Evans (1998). Souvannavong (1999) also provides some extremely valuable insider-research on returning Laotian elites.
30 See Ben Anderson (1994) on the dangers of 'long-distance nationalism'.
31 The most appropriate visual image here is one of VORTEX; an enormous up-surge from a centre, leaving a void which aches to be filled...
32 Somewhat similarly Saskia Sassen (1999b) contrasts the 'utopian' view of the Internet as a space of freedom and empowerment with the 'dystopian' which focuses on the power of big corporate networks to dominate the media.
33 See Hughes (2000) for another account of real social actions emerging from cyber-communications.
34
Anthropology owes a great debt to the work of Anthony Cohen (1982; 1985; 1986) in reviving the notion of the community and its symbolic boundaries.
35 As in simplistic contrasts often drawn in development studies between undifferentiated, homogeneous villages and fragmented, divided societies resulting from the impact of capital.
36 "The Anthropology of Separation and Reunion in China', LSE, 15-16 May 1999.
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24
Opinions differ on this. Sinn (1998;cf.1995) for example, traces the continued emergence of native-place associations in Hong Kong through the 1950s and their importance to date, yet Wong (1995) talks of Hong Kong identity as 'receding'..
25 Earlier Salaff and Wong (1997) had emphasised the importance of 'network capital' in motivating emigrations. See also articles in Skeldon (1994 and 1995) on the Hong Kong emigration process.
26 It may be the nostalgia for a vanished Hong Kong which has most afflicted Hong Kongers since the end of British colonialism (personal communication, Yang Tsung-Rong 5 December 2000).
27 Tapp (1996).
28 Personal communication, Prasit Leepreecha, 1995.
29 [email protected]' in Evans (1998). Souvannavong (1999) also provides some
extremely valuable insider-research on returning Laotian elites.
30 See Ben Anderson (1994) on the dangers of 'long-distance nationalism'.
31 The most approprate visual image here is one of VORTEX; an enormous up-
surge from a centre, leaving a void which aches to be filled...
32 Somewhat similarly Saskia Sassen (1999b) contrasts the 'utopian' view of the Internet as a space of freedom and empowerment with the 'dystopian' which focuses on the power of big corporate networks to dominate the media.
33 See Hughes (2000) for another account of real social actions emerging from
cyber-communications.
34
Anthropology owes a great debt to the work of Anthony Cohen (1982;1985; 1986) in reviving the notion of the community and its symbolic boundaries.
35 As in simplistic contrasts often drawn in development studies between undifferentiated, homogeneous villages and fragmented, divided societies re- sulting from the impact of capital.
36 "The Anthropology of Separation and Reunion in China', LSE, 15-16 May 1999.
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