Contemporary Chinese Diasporas

Author : Min Zhou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811055959

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Contemporary Chinese Diasporas by Min Zhou Pdf

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent. Long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent, the Chinese moved across sea and land, seasonally or permanently, to other parts of Asia and the rest of the world to pursue economic opportunities and alternative means of livelihood. This volume addresses the new Chinese diasporas around the world, offering a snapshot of the cosmopolitan and shifting nature of Chinese population dynamics from the perspectives of anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of international studies.

Author : Julia Kuehn,Kam Louie,David M. Pomfret
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780774825948

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Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China by Julia Kuehn,Kam Louie,David M. Pomfret Pdf

As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. In this volume, international scholars examine how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora represented this new China to global audiences. The chapters, often personal in nature, focus on the nexus between the political and economic rise of China and the cultural products this period produced, where new ideas of nation, identity, and diaspora were forged.

Author : Steven B. Miles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107179929

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Chinese Diasporas by Steven B. Miles Pdf

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

Author : Shelly Chan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822372035

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Diaspora’s Homeland by Shelly Chan Pdf

In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of “diaspora moments”—a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come into tension with local, national, and global ones—to map the multiple historical geographies in which the Chinese homeland and diaspora emerge. Chan describes several distinct moments, including the lifting of the Qing emigration ban in 1893, intellectual debates in the 1920s and 1930s about whether Chinese emigration constituted colonization and whether Confucianism should be the basis for a modern Chinese identity, as well as the intersection of gender, returns, and Communist campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. Adopting a transnational frame, Chan narrates Chinese history through a reconceptualization of diaspora to show how mass migration helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system.

Author : Olivia Khoo
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098797

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The Chinese Exotic by Olivia Khoo Pdf

With great sensitivity and originality, Olivia Khoo shows us how to read popular films, female movie stars, quotidian cultural artifacts, novels, and other 'Chinese exotic'phenomena in contemporary global circulation."--Rey Chow, Brown UniversityOlivia Khoo is a lecturer in film studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Author : Shibao Guo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000930535

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Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World by Shibao Guo Pdf

Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diaspora studies internationally. With a shifting paradigm of transnationalism and transnational migration, new patterns of Chinese mobilities have emerged that can be characterised as multiple and circular rather than unidirectional or final. This book illustrates how the analytical constructs of hypermobility, hyperdiversity and hyperconnectivity aid in the understanding of contemporary Chinese transnational diasporas. The book offers new research findings and theorisation and contributes to the existing Chinese diasporas literature and the interdisciplinary fields of ethnic, migration and mobility studies. It stimulates further research and scholarly work on the Chinese diasporas in the age of transnational migration. This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of sociology, ethnic studies, international politics, and migration studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : Yow Cheun Hoe,
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136171185

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Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora by Yow Cheun Hoe, Pdf

China’s rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China’s economic success has created a myth that their relations with China is natural and primordial, and that regardless of their base outside China and generation of migration, the Chinese Diaspora are inclined to participate enthusiastically in China’s social and economic agendas. This book seeks to dispel such a myth. By focusing on Guangdong, the largest ancestral and native homeland, it argues that not all Chinese diasporic communities are the same in terms of mentality and orientation, and that their connections to the ancestral homeland vary from one community to another. Taking the two Cantonese-speaking localities of Panyu and Xinyi, Yow Cheun Hoe examines the hierarchy of power and politics of these two localities in terms of their diasporic kinsfolk in Singapore and Malaysia, in comparison with their counterparts in North America and Hong Kong. The book reveals that, particularly in China’s reform era since 1978, the arguably primordial sentiment and kinship are less than crucial in determining the content and magnitude of linkages between China and the overseas Chinese. Rather, it suggests that since 1978 business calculation and economic rationale are some of the key motivating factors in determining the destination and degree of diasporic engagement. Examining various forms of Chinese diasporic engagement with China, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese Diaspora, Chinese culture and society, Southeast Asian culture and society and ethnicity.

Author : Laurence J. C. Ma,Carolyn L. Cartier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 074251756X

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The Chinese Diaspora by Laurence J. C. Ma,Carolyn L. Cartier Pdf

Leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Hong Liu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041533859X

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The Chinese Overseas by Hong Liu Pdf

Author : Min Zhou
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781592138593

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Contemporary Chinese America by Min Zhou Pdf

A sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience.

Author : Cangbai Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000286939

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Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas by Cangbai Wang Pdf

Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining heritage-making beyond the nation state, the book provides a much-needed, critical examination of China’s engagement with its diasporic communities. Drawing on fieldwork in more than ten museums, as well as interviews with museum practitioners and archival study, Wang offers a timely analysis of the complex ways in which Chinese diasporas are represented in the museum space of China, the ancestral homeland. Arguing that diasporic heritage is highly ambivalent and introducing a diasporic perspective to the study of cultural heritage, this book opens up a new avenue of inquiry into the study and management of cultural heritage in China and beyond. Most importantly, perhaps, Wang sheds new light on the dynamic between China and Chinese diasporas through the lens of the museum. Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas takes a transnational perspective that will draw attention to the under-researched connections between heritage, mobility and meaning in a global context. As such, this cross-disciplinary work will be of interest to scholars and students working in the museum and heritage studies fields, as well as those studying Asia, China, migration and diaspora, anthropology, history and culture.

Author : Melody Yunzi Li
Publisher : Asian American Studies Today
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1978829345

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Transpacific Cartographies by Melody Yunzi Li Pdf

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by an Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these "maps" outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies, and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these "maps" offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.

Author : Andrea Riemenschnitter,Deborah L. Madsen
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622090804

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Diasporic Histories by Andrea Riemenschnitter,Deborah L. Madsen Pdf

Chinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts, but the process of globalization has accelerated and diversified this phenomenon. Their fluid identities, innovative modernities, and generative talents in overcoming prejudice and multiple dislocations offer powerful examples of creative resistance to placebound traditions and nationalist histories. As the velocity of exchange in global media and commerce steadily increases, emergent and dynamic diasporas are increasingly influential in transnational discourses. This volume engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies. The book situates diasporic agency as an historical phenomenon with far-reaching political and social implications for both home and host societies and as a major site of contemporary cultural developments. By assembling a variety of regional, temporal, and disciplinary perspectives, it interrogates current notions of the diasporic subject, raising questions about respective ideological roots and cultural repositories as well as extensions and transgressions of new aesthetic vocabularies. Contributors include Roland Altenburger, Pheng Cheah, Prasenjit Duara, Kathrin Ensinger, Ping-kwan Leung, Helen F. Siu, Tamara S. Wagner, Mary Shuk-han Wong, Sau-ling C. Wong and Nicolas Zufferey.

Author : Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen,Andy Hancock
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270245

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Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen,Andy Hancock Pdf

This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which diasporic children and young people acquire the ‘Chinese’ language. The chapters present a variety of research-based studies on Chinese heritage language education and bilingual education drawing on detailed investigations of formal and informal educational input including language socialization in families, community heritage language schools and government sponsored educational institutions. Exploring the many pathways of learning ‘Chinese’ and being ‘Chinese’, this volume also examines the complex nature of language acquisition and development, involving language attitudes and ideologies as well as linguistic practices and identity formation. Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities is intended for researchers, teacher-educators, students and practitioners in the fields of Chinese language education and bilingual education and more broadly those concerned with language policy studies and sociolinguistics.

Author : M. Jocelyn Armstrong,R. Warwick Armstrong,Kent Mulliner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136123542

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Chinese Populations in Contemporary Southeast Asian Societies by M. Jocelyn Armstrong,R. Warwick Armstrong,Kent Mulliner Pdf

New perspectives on the past and present contributions of the 25 million strong Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia to the development of contemporary society. Case studies feature organisational, community, religious, and other arenas of Chinese activity and identity definition, and the book analyses the interplay of local, regional, global and transnational networks and identities.