Andrea Louie

Chineseness Across Borders

Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332367
• ISBN-10: 0822332361
• Artikelnr.: 22064474

Autorenporträt

Andrea Louie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: On Boundary Crossings 1
1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese/Chinese
American Roots 39
2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through
the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour 69
3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of
U.S. Multiculturalism 95
4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan): Changing Views
of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy 127
5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter
between the Chinese and the Chinese American Other 161
6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness 189
Epilogue 205
Notes 211
Bibliography 229
Index 239