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Hong Kong (1850s-1890s)
Patricia Pok-kwan Chiu a a University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Cambridge, UK

To cite this Article Chiu, Patricia Pok-kwan(2008) ''A position of usefulness': gendering history of girls' education in

colonial Hong Kong (1850s-1890s)', History of Education, 37: 6, 789 — 805
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History of Education
Vol. 37, No. 6, November 2008, 789–805

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