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Cantopop and Mandapop in pre-postcolonial Hong Kong: identity negotiation in the performances of Anita Mui Yim-Fong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

J. Lawrence Witzleben
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The following comments appeared on the front page of the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post on 19 January 1989, in a story about a performance in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Canton) by Hong Kong singer Anita Mui YimFong .

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Popular Music , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 1999 , pp. 241 - 258
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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