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UNINA9910838360103321 |
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Autore |
Wang Leslie K. |
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Chasing the American Dream in China : Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland / / Leslie Kim Wang |
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[2021], : Rutgers University Press |
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New Brunswick |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 pages) |
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Collana |
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Asian American studies today |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrants - Social conditions |
Emigration and immigration |
Chinese Americans - Ethnic identity |
Chinese Americans |
Americans - Social conditions |
American Dream |
HISTORY / Asia / General |
Immigrants - China - Social conditions |
Americans - China - Social conditions |
Chinese Americans - China |
China |
China Emigration and immigration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Introduction -- Growing up in-between: Chinese American identity and belonging in the United States -- Creating the "non-American American dream" overseas: strategic in-betweenness in action -- Perpetually Chinese, but not Chinese enough for China -- "Leftover women" and "kings of the candy shop": the gendered experiences of ABCs in the ancestral homeland -- Conclusion. |
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"Few studies have highlighted the stories of middle-class children of immigrants who move to their ancestral homelands-countries with which they share cultural ties but haven't necessarily had direct contact. Chasing the American Dream in China addresses this gap by examining |
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