Chinese women traversing diaspora : memoirs, essays, and poetry / edited by Sharon K. Hom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hom, Sharon K.

Series:

Gender, culture, and global politics ; v. 3.

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1076.

Gender, culture, and global politics ; v. 3

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1076

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Foreign countries.

Chinese.

Women immigrants.

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1999.

Contents:

Introduction: points of no return / Sharon K. Hom

In America / Zhang Zhen

[Un]fracturing images: positioning Chinese diaspora in law and culture / Margaret Y.K. Woo

The jet lag of a migratory bird: border crossings toward/from 'the land that is not' / Zhang Zhen

Self-reinstating and coming to "conscious aloneness" / Ma Yuanxi

Deep into Småland / Zhang Zhen

Multiple readings and personal reconfigurations against the 'nationalist grain' / Zhong Xueping

[Per]forming law : deformations and transformations / Sharon K. Hom

Coming to terms with history / Vivien Ng

Too many things forgotten / Zhang Zhen

Moving into stillness / Eleanor S. Yung

Beijing Two / Zhang Zhen

Growing up colonial and crossing borders: tales from a reporter's notebook / Ying Chan

Roundtable on the fourth world conference on women and the NGO forum, 1995 / Sharon K. Hom, Ma Yuanxi, Tan Dali, Wang Zheng, Zhong Xueping.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249).

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.

Local Notes:

Donated by Sharon K.

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0815321627

9780815321620

OCLC:

39727745

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