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Chineseness across borders : renegotiating Chinese identities in China and the United States / Andrea Louie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Louie, Andrea.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- In Search of Roots program.
- Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Chinese--Ethnic identity.
- Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Other Title:
- Renegotiating Chinese identities in China and the United States
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Transnational ethnic identity issues studied through an ethnography of Chinese American visits to Chinese villages organized under a program set up by the Chinese government.
- Contents:
- Introduction : on boundary crossing
- Identities fixed in place : ancestral villages and Chinese/Chinese American roots
- Welcome home!(?) : crafting a sense of place in the United States through the In Search of Roots homeland tour
- Crafting Chinese American identities : roots narratives in the context of U.S. multiculturalism
- The feng shui has taken a turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan) : changing vies of the Guangdong Chinese toward life abroad following the open policy
- The descendants of the dragon gather : the Youth Festival as encounter between the Chinese and Chinese American other
- Remaking places and renegotiating Chineseness.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612921148
- 9781282921146
- 1282921142
- 9780822385615
- 0822385619
- OCLC:
- 191855678
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