At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings

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K. Kuah-Pearce, A. Davidson
Springer, Jan 17, 2008 - Social Science - 259 pages
This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.
 

Contents

Diasporic Memories and Identities
1
Chinese Migrants in Sydney
12
3 Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia
33
4 Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney
52
Identities and Homelands of the ABCs
74
Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s
94
from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns
111
Open Port Period 18761910
128
the Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China
146
Chinese Migrants in Germany
164
11 A Century of Not Belonging the Chinese in South Africa
187
Migrating Narratives and Identity Construction
206
Memory Identity and Music in Hong Kongs Diasporic Films
224
through the Diasporic LookingGlass
244
Index
254
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DARRYL ACCONE is Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ESTHER M. K. CHEUNG is Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, School of Humanities and Director, Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SHEENA CHOI is Associate Professor, Social Foundations, School of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA JOHN CLAMMER is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan ROSA DAI is Doctorial Candidate, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of New South Wales, Australia KAREN HARRIS is Professor, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and Director of the Archives, University of Pretoria, South Africa DAVID IP is Associate Professor/Reader, Program Director, Master of Development Practice, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia WALTER LALICH is Associate, Australian Centre for Co-operative Research and Development, University of Technology Sydney, Australia AMY WAI-SUM LEE is Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong MAGGI LEUNG is Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany LUCILLE NGAN is Doctorial Candidate, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of New South Wales, Australia

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