| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter One. Introduction: Rethinking the Chinese Transnational Imaginary; Chapter Two. Re-Appropriating the Model Minority Stereotype: Reflections on the 2000 Organization of Chinese Americans Convention; Chapter Three. Between Being More American and Being More Chinese: An Ethnography of the Lowell Chinese School; Chapter Four. Tang Poetry: The Paradox of Impossible Return; Chapter Five. Between Fragmentation and Commodification: Performing Chineseness for Self and Other in Lowell and Tilburg |
| Summary |
This book explores how Chinese communities in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. The book not only compares the local conditions of Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the Chinese transnational imaginary. The book analyzes three strategies which overseas Chinese use to articulate their identities as diasporic subjects: (1) being more American/German, (2) being more Chinese, and (3) hybridizing and commodifying Chinese culture through trans-cultural performances. These three strategies a |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203960493 |
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0203960491 |
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9781135523442 |
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1135523444 |
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