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Dispatch from Hong Kong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Shuang Shen
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I moved to Hong Kong about fourteen months ago to teach in a liberal arts university located in the new territories, on the border between Hong Kong and mainland China, about half an hour away by bus. Before coming to Hong Kong, I had taught for a few years in several American institutions, ranging from a community college to a research university. The courses I taught were mostly in Asian American literature, postcolonial literature, and Chinese literature in translation. Immersed as a graduate student and a teacher in American multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and ethnic studies, I have found a great deal of difference between the situation in Hong Kong and the social contexts of the United States and former colonial nations in South Asia, in which most ethnic, multicultural, and postcolonial theories are situated.

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Correspondents at Large
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 5: Special Topic Comparative Racialization , October 2008 , pp. 1757 - 1760
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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