| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Writing across borders : Hong Kong's 1950s and the present / Ping-kwan Leung -- Diaspora, sojourn, migration : the transnational dynamics of "Chineseness" / Deborah L. Madsen -- Positioning at the margins : the infra-power of middle-class Hong Kong / Helen F. Siu -- The yellow and the black : race and diasporic identity in Sinophone Chinese American literature / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Between sovereignty and capitalism : the historical experiences of migrant Chinese / Prasenjit Duara -- Exile in China during the Han dynasty / Nicolas Zufferey -- Fantasizing the homeland : Ji Yun's recollections of exile at the Western frontier (1769-70) / Roland Altenburger -- The voyage to Hong Kong : bildungsroman in Hong Kong literature of the 1950s / Mary Shuk-han Wong -- Another diaspora : Chineseness and the traffic in women in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Pheng Cheah -- Queer transnationalism : literary anthropologies from the contact zone / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Women and diaspora : Zhao Shuxia's novel Sai Jinhua and the quest for female agency / Kathrin Ensinger -- Double diaspora? "Re-presenting" Singaporeans abroad / Tamara Wagner |
| Summary |
This work 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life
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Immigrants' writings, Chinese -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- World.
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Chinese diaspora
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Immigrants' writings, Chinese
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Literatur
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Kulturleben
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Auswanderer
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Chinesen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Riemenschnitter, Andrea
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Madsen, Deborah L
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| ISBN |
9789888052172 |
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9888052179 |
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