Chasing the American Dream in China : Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland /

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"Few studies have highlighted the stories of middle-class children of immigrants who move to their ancestral homelands-countries with which they share cultural ties but haven't necessarily had direct contact. Chasing the American Dream in China addresses this gap by examining the lives of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Leslie K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration.
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans.
Americans > Social conditions.
American Dream.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Immigrants > China > Social conditions.
Americans > China > Social conditions.
Chinese Americans > China.
China.
China > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Growing up in-between: Chinese American identity and belonging in the United States
  • Creating the "non-American American dream" overseas: strategic in-betweenness in action
  • Perpetually Chinese, but not Chinese enough for China
  • "Leftover women" and "kings of the candy shop": the gendered experiences of ABCs in the ancestral homeland
  • Conclusion.

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