Interpreting The Chinese Diaspora

Author : Guanglun Michael Mu,Bonnie Pang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351118804

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Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora by Guanglun Michael Mu,Bonnie Pang Pdf

Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly white, English-speaking societies. This raises questions of what 'Chineseness' is. The gradual transfer of power from the West to the East shuffles the relative cultural weights within these societies. How do the global power shifts and local cultural vibrancies come to shape the social dispositions and positions of the Chinese diaspora, and how does the Chinese diaspora respond to these changes? How does primary pedagogic work through family upbringing and secondary pedagogic work through educational socialisation complicate, obfuscate, and enrich Chineseness? Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology on relative and relational sociocultural positions, Mu and Pang assess how historical, contemporary, and ongoing changes across social spaces of family, school, and community come to shape the intergenerational educational, cultural, and social reproduction of Chinese diasporic populations. The two authors engage in an in-depth analysis of the identity work, educational socialisation, and resilience building of young Chinese Australians and Chinese Canadians in the ever-changing lived world. The authors look particularly at the tensions and dynamics around the participants’ life and educational choices; the meaning making out of their Chinese bodies in relation to gender, race, and language; and the sociological process of resilience that enculturates them into a system of dispositions and positions required to bounce back from structural constraints.

Author : Laurence J. C. Ma,Carolyn L. Cartier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : L. Ling-chi Wang,Gungwu Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036359027

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The Chinese Diaspora by L. Ling-chi Wang,Gungwu Wang Pdf

The first volume of a two-volume set contains 15 essays selected from 150-plus papers presented at the Luodi-shenggen International Conference on Chinese Overseas held in San Francisco in 1998. The theme--luodi-shenggen or the planting of permanent roots in the soils of different countries--represents a departure from both an assimilationist point of view and from a China-centered "sojourner" point of view. The papers cover various aspects of two broad areas: transnational issues and concerns of Chinese overseas, and regional studies, including those of lesser-known regions. No index. Times Academic Press is in Singapore; US distribution is by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Wanning Sun,John Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317509462

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Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora by Wanning Sun,John Sinclair Pdf

The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese government has embarked on a full-scale push for the internationalisation of Chinese media and culture. Media and communication have therefore become crucial factors in shaping the increasingly fraught politics of transnational Chinese communities. This book explores the changing nature of these communities, and reveals their dynamic and complex relationship to the media in a range of countries worldwide. Overall, the book highlights a number of ways in which China’s "going global" policy interacts with other factors in significantly reshaping the content and contours of the diasporic Chinese media landscape. In doing so, this book constitutes a major rethinking of Chinese transnationalism in the twenty-first century.

Author : Chelsea Rose,Jonathan Ryan Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Chinese
ISBN : 0813065402

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Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America by Chelsea Rose,Jonathan Ryan Kennedy Pdf

Author : Wanning Sun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134263592

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Media and the Chinese Diaspora by Wanning Sun Pdf

The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media communication is linked to commerce, which is often a key activity of the overseas Chinese. Revealing a great deal about the vibrancy and dynamism of the Chinese-language media, the book considers the Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, showing how it plays a crucial role in the changing nature of the Chinese diaspora.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814365918

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Migration, Indigenization and Interaction by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Pt. 1. Migration and globalization. ch. 1. Migration, localization and cultural exchange : global perspectives of Chinese overseas. ch. 2. Three cultures of migration. ch. 3. The Huagong, the Huashang and the diaspora -- pt. 2. North America. ch. 4. Immigrants from China to Canada : issues of supply and demand of human capital. ch. 5. Deconstructing parental involvement : Chinese immigrants in Canada. ch. 6. Migration, ethnicity and citizenry of Chinese Americans in selected regions of the US -- pt. 3. South and Southeast Asia. ch. 7. Territory and centrality among the Chinese in Kolkata. ch. 8. Examining the demographic developments relating to the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam since 1954. ch. 9. Integration, indigenization, hybridization and localization of the ethnic Chinese minority in the Philippines. ch. 10. Elephant vs. tiger : a comparative analysis of entrepreneurship of two prominent Southeast Asian beer corporations -- pt. 4. China and Chinese overseas. ch. 11. Migration and China's urban reading public : shifting representations of overseas Chinese in Shanghai's Dongfang Zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) 1904-1948. ch. 12. Return Chinese migrants or Canadian diaspora? Exploring the experience of Chinese Canadians in China

Author : Michael W Charney,Brenda S A Yeoh,Tong Chee Kiong
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814488310

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Chinese Migrants Abroad by Michael W Charney,Brenda S A Yeoh,Tong Chee Kiong Pdf

Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result, and the durability of the Singapore economy during this same crisis, have helped to sustain this attention. The study of the overseas Chinese has by now become a global enterprise, raising new theoretical problems and empirical challenges. New case studies of overseas Chinese, such as those on communities in North America, Cuba, India, and South Africa, continually unveil different perspectives. New kinds of transnational connectivities linking Chinese communities are also being identified. It is now possible to make broader generalizations of a Chinese diaspora, on a global basis. Further, the intensifying study of the overseas Chinese has stimulated renewed intellectual vigor in other areas of research. The transnational and transregional activities of overseas Chinese, for example, pose serious challenges to analytical concepts of regional divides such as that between East and Southeast Asia. Despite the increased attention, new data, and the changing theoretical paradigms, basic questions concerning the overseas Chinese remain. The papers in this volume seek to understand the overseas Chinese migrants not just in terms of the overall Chinese diaspora per se, but also local Chinese migrants adapting to local societies, in different national contexts. Contents: Chineseness and “Overseas” Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community:Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences (J Mackie)Providers, Protectors, Guardians: Migration and Reconstruction of Masculinities (R Hibbins)Tasting the Night: Food, Ethnic Transaction, and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia (S-C Yao)Multiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong (J K Chin)Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education:Chinese Education and Changing National and Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chûka Dôbun Gakkô [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe (B W-M Ng)Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools (T B Wee)Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese Education in British Malaya (C H Yen)The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education (D T-K Wong)Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society:Language, Education, and Occupational Attainment of Foreign-Trained Chinese and Polish Professional Immigrants in Toronto, Canada (Z Li)Career and Family Factors in Intention for Permanent Settlement in Australia (S-E Khoo & A Mak)No Longer Migrants: Southern New Zealand Chinese in the Twentieth Century (N Pawakapan)Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Reflections on the Cultural Implications of Modern Education (G K Lee) Readership: Academics and lay people who are interested in social studies of Chinese immigrant societies. Keywords:

Author : Chelsea Rose,J. Ryan Kennedy
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057354

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Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America by Chelsea Rose,J. Ryan Kennedy Pdf

Archaeologists are increasingly interested in studying the experiences of Chinese immigrants, yet this area of research is mired in long-standing interpretive models that essentialize race and identity. Showcasing the enormous amount of data available on the lives of Chinese people who migrated to North America in the nineteenth century, this volume charts new directions by providing fresh approaches to interpreting immigrant life. In this volume, leading scholars first tackle broad questions of how best to position and understand these populations. They then delve into a variety of site-based and topical case studies, providing new approaches to themes like Chinese immigrant foodways and highlighting understudied topics including entrepreneurialism, cross-cultural interactions, and conditions in the Jim Crow South. Pushing back against old colonial-based tropes, contributors call for an awareness of the transnational relationships created through migration, engagement with broader archaeological and anthropological debates, and the expansion of research into new contexts and topics. Contributors: Linda Bentz | Todd J. Braje | Kelly N. Fong | D. Ryan Gray | J. Ryan Kennedy | Christopher Merritt | Laura W. | Virginia S. Popper | Adrian Praetzellis | Mary Praetzellis | Chelsea Rose | Douglas E. Ross | Charlotte K. Sunseri | Barbara L. Voss | Priscilla Wegars | Henry Yu

Author : Chee-Beng Tan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415600569

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Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora by Chee-Beng Tan Pdf

With around 30 million migrants worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants have had a major impact on the local societies (including the ethnic Chinese) and on China. The transnational networks between the Chinese in diaspora and China have become even more significant as China has emerged as an economic world power.

Author : Julia Kuehn,Kam Louie,David M. Pomfret
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Yow Cheun Hoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : K. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230591622

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At Home in the Chinese Diaspora by K. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson Pdf

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.

Author : Wanning Sun,Haiqing Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000571035

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WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora by Wanning Sun,Haiqing Yu Pdf

WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an ‘imagined community’, the book shows how WeChat’s assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China’s rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Maria N. Ng,Philip Holden
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622097960

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Reading Chinese Transnationalisms by Maria N. Ng,Philip Holden Pdf

Reading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultural studies by examining Chinese transnationalism from a variety of perspectives. In interrogating social practices and literary and filmic texts which frequently cross national borders in imagining Chineseness, the contributors to this volume also challenge received notions of Chinese transnationalism, opening up new perspectives on the topic. The structure of the book is clearly subdivided into sections on society, literature, and films for quick reference, and each essay is written in accessible language without sacrificing intellectual rigor and critical relevance. The international list of contributors and the wide-ranging subjects they address make Reading Chinese Transnationalisms a unique work in its field. This volume will appeal to all with an interest in Chinese transnationalism, and in particular those who come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social science.