At home in the Chinese diaspora : memories, identities and belongings
"In At Home in the Chinese Diaspora, the contributors interrogate current debates in relation to the ways in which memory, identity and sense of belonging help shape migrants' understanding of self, the diasporic community (or communities) and the wider society in which they live. They describe the local and transnational challenges such diasporic communities face in their daily lives, how memories are reproduced, how they serve as social and cultural capital, how they create tensions and conflicts and how they change and impact on the individuals and communities across generational barriers. The authors also explore the role of place in situating memories and how the media, films and music portray and reinforce the understanding of identity."--BOOK JACKET
pages cm
9780230506985, 0230506984
154788645
Introduction: disaporic memories and identities / Andrew P. Davidson and Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
The play of identity, memory and belonging: Chinese migrants in Sydney / Andrew P. Davidson
Memories and identity anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia / David Ip
Chinese collective memories in Sydney / Walter Lalich
Generational identities through time: identities and homelands of the ABCs / Lucille Ngan
Moving through memory: Chinese migration to New Zealand in the 1990s / Andrew P. Davidson and Rosa Dei
Collective memories as cultural capital: from Chinese diaspora to emigrant hometowns / Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
Politics, commerce, and construction of Chinese otherness in Korea: open port period (1876-1910) / Sheena Choi
Imagination, memory and misunderstanding: the Chinese in Japan and Japanese perceptions of China / John Clammer
Memories, belonging and home-making: Chinese migrants in Germany / Maggi W.H. Leung
A century of not belonging: the Chinese in South Africa / Darryl Accone and Karen L. Harris
Look who's talking: migration narratives and identity construction / Amy Lee Wai-sum
In love with music: memory, identity, and music in Hong Kong's diasporic films / Esther M.K. Cheung
Includes index