Kwok Bun Chan

Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism "explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. Within these communities migrants face a fight between departure and destination cultures. This book considers the consequences of this conflict of identity and the numerous possible outcomes from cultural assimilation to the emergence of mutually developed hybrid cultures. Using extensive case study material, various models of newly-forged communities are examined. The book analyses the individual's place in society, as well as the conflict between personal ethnic identity, and migration, integration and cultural conversion. Chan highlights the point that communities are not homogenous but composed of an array of motives, aims and degrees of receptivity. "Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism "emphasizes the changing face of Chinese ethnicity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 169
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415369299
• ISBN-10: 0415369290
• Artikelnr.: 20970547

Autorenporträt

Chan Kwok-bun is Head of the Department of Sociology and Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at the Baptist University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: When Strangers Meet 1. Rethinking Assimilation and Chinese
Ethnicity in Thailand 2. Civic Identity and Chinese Ethnicity in a Market
Town in Thailand 3. The Migrant Family Drama of Mainland Chinese Immigrants
in Singapore 4. The Ethnicity Paradox of Hong Kong Immigrants in Singapore
5. One Face, Many Masks: The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity
in Singapore 6. Migration, Dispersal, and the Chinese Cosmopolitan 7.
Epilogue: Inner Hybridity in the City