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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 Po

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