Talk:Americans in Hong Kong

This needs a lot of work

1st para: What source says “most Americans in Hong Kong are not permanent residents” and why is this for some reason followed by “and continue to hold single citizenship.” ? Residency rights and citizenship are unrelated, in this context.

2nd para: One sentence about pre-1949 Hong Kong? “Inadequate” doesn’t seem, . . . adequate, somehow, especially given the extensive references listed below.

3rd para: What evidence is that there are more Americans than Brits living in HK? Please don’t cite government data, since it does not count permanent residents as foreign nationals (which is why there was such a “decline” post-1997: the law changed to allow non-Chinese to become permanent residents). Oh, and Eden Woon hasn’t been head of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (actually, he was CEO, not “head”) for two years.

Why are the Notable Americans in Hong Kong all ethnic Chinese? Doesn't Jim Thompson, count?

DOR (HK) (talk) 02:30, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Further Reading

The list of further reading is all by the same author, which looks like advertising. I've removed it, and placed it here, in case I'm wrong. DOR (HK) (talk) 06:41, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Further reading

• Ford, Stacilee (2002), A Woman’s Place is at the Peak: U.S. Women in 19th and 20th Century Hong Kong, Gender Studies Program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Ford, Stacilee (2001), Who is the American Woman?: U.S. Expatriates in Hong Kong, Xian Foreign Language University {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Ford, Stacilee (2000), In the Meridian of Her Usefulness: American Missionary Women in Hong Kong, Department of History Seminar Series, Hong Kong University {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Ford, Stacilee, ""Going Native" in Hong Kong: Gender and Expatriate Narratives", Cultures of Interdependence: The U.S.A. and Asia, Singapore: National University of Singapore {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
• Ford, Stacilee (1999), "Brand New Spaces, Familiar Places: American Women in Hong Kong", Feminist Literature: Global Outlook on Gender Issues, Srinakharinwirot and Salisbury State Universities {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Languages

Shall we list all possible languages that some random American living in Hong Kong might speak, or shall we just drop the category of languages all together? DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 20:27, 24 February 2023 (UTC)