At Home in the Chinese Diaspora

Memories, Identities and Belongings

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvK. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson,Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce,Andrew P. Davidson

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-01-17
Mått140 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt467 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor259
Upplaga2008
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230506985

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik
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Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

KHUN ENG KUAH-PEARCE is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Honorary Academic Director of the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism and Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. ANDREW P. DAVIDSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is co-author of E-Commerce in Tourism: Use of Websites by Small Regional & Urban Tou

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disaporic Memories and Identities: A.P.Davidson& K.E.Kuah-Pearce The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney: A.P.Davidson Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia: D.Ip Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney: W.Lalich Generational Identities Through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs: L.Ngan Moving Through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s: A.P.Davidson& R.Dei Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns: K.E.Kuah-Pearce Politics, Commerce, and Construction of Chinese "Otherness" in Korea: Open Port Period (1876-1910): S.Choi Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: The Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China: J.Clammer Memories, Belonging and Home-making: Chinese Migrants in Germany: M.W.H. Leung A Century of Not Belonging - The Chinese in South Africa: D.Accone& K.L.Harris Look Who's Talking: Migration Narratives and Identity Construction: A.L.Wai-sum In Love with Music: Memory, Identity, and Music in Hong Kong's Diasporic Films: E.M.K.Cheung Conclusion: Through the Diasporic Looking-glass: A.P.Davidson Index