At home in the Chinese diaspora : memories, identities and belongings / / edited by Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng and Andrew P. Davidson

• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke ; ; New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2008.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 305.895/1; 305.8951
• Soggetto topico: Chinese - Foreign countries - History; Ethnicity; Emigration and immigration; Culture—Study and teaching; Sociology; Anthropology; Ethnicity Studies; Migration; Regional and Cultural Studies; Sociology, general
• Persona (resp. second.): Kuah-PearceKhun Eng <1958->; DavidsonAndrew P. <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: At home in the Chinese diaspora
• ISBN: 1-281-91503-3; 9786611915032; 0-230-59162-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782207803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II