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Chinese identities, ethnicity and cosmopolitanism
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ISBN: 113420311X 1280267585 9786610267583 0203029534 9780203029534 0415369290 9780415369299 9781134203062 9781134203109 9781134203116 9780415546706 1134203101 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society. With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity in a range of established places of convergence, Chan draws on extensive experience and knowledge in the field to bring the reader a fresh, fascinating and ultimately very human analysis of

China's quest for national identity
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ISBN: 0801480647 0801427851 9780801427855 9780801480645 Year: 1993 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press

Visuality and identity
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ISBN: 1282772120 9786612772122 0520940156 1435601963 9780520940154 9781435601963 9781282772120 6612772123 9780520224513 0520224515 9780520249448 0520249445 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Shu-mei Shih inaugurates the field of Sinophone studies in this vanguard excursion into sophisticated cultural criticism situated at the intersections of Chinese studies, Asian American studies, diaspora studies, and transnational studies. Arguing that the visual has become the primary means of mediating identities under global capitalism, Shih examines the production and circulation of images across what she terms the "Sinophone Pacific," which comprises Sinitic-language speaking communities such as the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese America. This groundbreaking work argues that the dispersal of the so-called Chinese peoples across the world needs to be reconceptualized in terms of vibrant or vanishing communities of Sinitic-language cultures rather than of ethnicity and nationality.

The Chinese national character : from nationhood to individuality
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ISBN: 076560826X 0765608278 Year: 2002 Publisher: Armonk Sharpe

Academic nations in China and Japan
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ISBN: 041531545X 1134376154 0203563417 1280054727 9780203563410 9780415315456 9781134376100 9781134376148 9781134376155 9780415864497 1134376146 1134376103 9781280054723 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon


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The Urban Code of China
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ISBN: 9783034605724 3034605722 3034612060 9783034612067 Year: 2012 Publisher: Basel

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Was ist das Chinesische an der chinesischen Stadt? Ihre Syntax? Ihr Code? Durch seine Entschlüsselung vermag der Autor die Vielfalt der empirischen Eindrücke zu ordnen und auch aktuelle, von europäischen Architekten geplante Stadtgründungen in China neu zu &#x201E;lesen".


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Chinese characters : profiles of fast-changing lives in a fast-changing land.
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ISBN: 9780520270275 9780520270268 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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Passing through Shanghai : ethnographic insights into the mobile lives of expatriate youths
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ISBN: 3946054056 3946054048 394605403X 9783946054054 Year: 2016 Publisher: Heidelberg, Germany : Heidelberg University Publishing,

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Passing Through Shanghai examines how children experience international mobility. Focusing on a specific yet diverse group of expatriate youths in contemporary Shanghai, the book investigates how children negotiate cultural identity when they are subject to the highly mobile and often privileged lifestyle associated with their parent’s international careers. The ethnographic fieldwork that informs the book was carried out in Shanghai from 2010 to 2012 and focused on expatriate teenagers’ everyday practices, their lives at international schools, their engagement with the city, their dreams and aspirations, as well as their questions of belonging. The book’s ethnographic approach captures the “in-between” state of moving while growing up and explores teenage practices and positionings in this transitory situation. The teenagers’ own perspectives and experiences of living in expatriate communities contribute to a larger view of the interdependence and contradictions between the aspired flexibility of twenty-first century identities and the rigidity of cultural divisions based on nationality, ethnicity, gender, and class.


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Chinese characters
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ISBN: 1283543257 9786613855701 0520954130 9780520954137 0520270266 0520270274 9780520270268 9780520270275 9781283543255 6613855707 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on a growing car culture by trying to convince people not to buy cars. And a 90-year-old woman remembers how the oldest neighborhoods of her city used to be. These are the exciting and saddening, humorous and confusing stories of utterly ordinary people who are living through China's extraordinary transformations. The immense variety in the lives of these Chinese characters dispels any lingering sense that China has a monolithic population or is just a place where dissidents fight Communist Party loyalists and laborers create goods for millionaires.Chinese Characters is a collection, as Pankaj Mishra writes in his foreword, ";to herald a new golden age of journalism about a ceaselessly fascinating country."; Contributors include a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, a Macarthur Fellow, the China correspondent to a major Indian newspaper, and scholars whose depth of understanding is matched only by the humanity with which they treat their subjects. Their stories together create a multi-faceted portrait of a country in motion and an introduction to some of the best writing on China today.With contributions from: Alec Ash, James Carter, Leslie T. Chang, Xujun Eberlein, Harriet Evans, Anna Greenspan, Peter Hessler, Ian Johnson, Ananth Krishnan, Christina Larson, Michelle Dammon Loyalka, James Millward, Evan Osnos, Jeffrey Prescott, Megan Shank

Cultural curiosity
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ISBN: 0520924916 1597345601 9780520924918 0585389357 9780585389356 9780520223400 0520223403 9780520223417 0520223411 9781597345606 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China.

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