Chineseness across Borders : Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States /

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What happens when Chinese American youths travel to mainland China in search of their ancestral roots, only to realize that in many ways they still feel out of place, or when mainland Chinese realize that the lives of the Chinese abroad may not be as good as they had imagined? By considering program...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Louie, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2004]
Temas:
Chinese Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Chinese > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On Boundary Crossings
  • 1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese/Chinese American Roots
  • 2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour
  • 3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of U.S. Multiculturalism
  • 4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan): Changing Views of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy
  • 5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter between the Chinese and Chinese American Other
  • 6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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