Leslie Kim Wang

Chasing the American Dream in China: Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland

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Produktbeschreibung

Chasing the American Dream in China centers the stories of second-generation Chinese American professionals who “return” to their ancestral homeland to build careers. This book highlights complex issues of ethnic identity and belonging faced by Chinese Americans in both the United States and China as they position themselves as indispensable economic bridges between the world’s two greatest superpowers.

Produktdetails

• Asian American Studies Today
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813599373
• ISBN-10: 0813599377
• Artikelnr.: 60023101

Autorenporträt

LESLIE WANG is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction
2 Growing Up In-Between: Chinese American Identity and Belonging in the
United States
3 Creating the "Non-American American Dream" Overseas: Strategic
In-Betweenness in Action
4 Perpetually Chinese, But Not Chinese Enough for China
5 "Leftover Women" and "Kings of the Candy Shop": The Gendered Experiences
of ABCs in the Ancestral Homeland
6 Conclusion
Appendix: Research Methods
Acknowledgments
Notes
References 
Index