Diasporic histories [[electronic resource] ] : cultural archives of Chinese transnationalism / / edited by Andrea Riemenschnitter and Deborah L. Madsen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785600403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press; [London, : Eurospan, distributor], 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-70879-1; 9786612708794; 988-8052-17-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RiemenschnitterAndrea; MadsenDeborah L
• Disciplina: 909.04951
• Soggetti: Chinese diaspora; Chinese - Foreign countries - Intellectual life; Immigrants' writings, Chinese - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Andrea Riemenschnitter and Deborah L. Madsen -- Writing across Borders : Hong Kong's 1950s and the Present / Ping-kwan Leung -- Diaspora, Sojourn, Migration : The Transnational Dynamics of "Chineseness" / Deborah L. Madsen -- Positioning at the Margins : The Infra-Power of Middle-Class Hong Kong / Helen F. Siu -- The Yellow and the Black : Race and Diasporic Identity in Sinophone Chinese American Literature / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Between Sovereignty and Capitalism : The Historical Experiences of Migrant Chinese / Prasenjit Duara -- Exile in China during the Han Dynasty / Nicolas Zufferey -- Fantasizing the Homeland : Ji Yun's Recollections of Exile at the Western Frontier (1769-70) / Roland Altenburger -- The Voyage to Hong Kong : Bildungsroman in Hong Kong Literature of the 1950s / Mary Shuk- han Wong -- Another Diaspora : Chineseness and the Traffic in Women in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Pheng Cheah -- Queer Transnationalism : Literary Anthropologies from the Contact Zone / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Women and Diaspora : Zhao Shuxia's ; Novel Sai Jinhua and the Quest for Female Agency / Kathrin Ensinger -- Double Diaspora? "Re-presenting" Singaporeans abroad / Tamara Wagner.
• Sommario/riassunto: This work engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies.