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At home in the Chinese diaspora Memories, identities and belongings /

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 memori...

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Group Author: Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng.; Davidson, Andrew P.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Migration, immigration & emigration > China.
Regional studies > China.
Globalization > China.
Anthropology > China.
Society.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230591622
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 272 p.
ISBN: 9780230506985
9780230591622 :
0230591620 :
CLC: F114.41
Contents: 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.

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