TY - BOOK ID - 103791876 TI - The Chinese Atlantic : Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization PY - 2020 SN - 0253047366 025304751X 0253047536 9780253047533 9780253047366 9780253047519 PB - Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Civilization KW - Chinese. KW - Arts. KW - Arts KW - Chinese KW - Chinese influences. KW - History. KW - Caribbean Area. KW - Caribbean Area KW - Arts, Daghestan KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Ethnology KW - Caribbean Free Trade Association countries KW - Caribbean Region KW - Caribbean Sea Region KW - West Indies Region KW - Arts, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103791876 AB - "In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded and continue to influence the social reproduction of Chineseness. With a particular focus on the Caribbean, Metzger investigates the expressive culture of Chinese migrants and the communities that received these waves of people. He interrogates central issues in the study of similar case studies from South Africa and England to demonstrate how Chinese Atlantic seascapes frame globalization as we experience it today. Frequently focusing on art that interacts directly with the sites in which it is located, Metzger explores how Chinese migrant laborers and entrepreneurs did the same to shape-both physically and culturally-the new spaces in which they found themselves. In this manner, Metzger encourages us to see how artistic imagination and practice interact with migration to produce a new way of framing the global" Reeling -- Incorporating -- Flowing -- Ebbing -- Eddying -- Epilogue. ER -