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9780789010568

Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values

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  • ISBN13:

    9780789010568

  • ISBN10:

    0789010569

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2000-07-17
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Based on culture-related themes derived from the author's psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese-American professionals, this important book connects personal problems and conditions to specific sources in Chinese and American cultures and histories and the immigration experience. Unique and practical, Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values will help Chinese Americans in their daily activities and provide parents, educators, and mental health professionals with first-hand insight into the lives and feelings of Chinese-American immigrants. Full of personal vignettes, humor, and interesting insights, this guide will help you understand and assist Chinese-American immigrants in finding and shaping their cross-cultural identity.

Author Biography

May Tung, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, California. She is the former Director of the National Asian American Psychology Training Center in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(4)
What Is in a Name? Culture and Personal Boundary
5(18)
What Is in a Chinese Name?
6(4)
Individual Persons in Chinese Context
10(9)
The Great Wall Mentality: Boundary As Reflected in Dwellings
19(4)
The Environment for Chinese-American Self-Identity
23(16)
The Process of Self-Identification
23(1)
Chinese-American Self-Identity
24(13)
``E.T. Phone Home'': Roots of the ``Self''
37(2)
``You Have a Chinese What?!'': Internalized Inferiority
39(22)
``Asianness As a Liability''
40(1)
Self-Presentation
41(13)
Yes, Even in China
54(7)
Emotions: Coping Style, Allocation, and Communication
61(20)
Worldviews and Coping Styles
63(5)
Allocation and Communication of Emotions
68(8)
Emotional Awareness for Chinese Americans
76(5)
Moving Out from the Shadow of the Eclipse: Integration
81(18)
In America
83(7)
In China
90(9)
Ancestral Ghosts Meet Superman: A New Cycle of Chinese Immigrants
99(6)
References 105(2)
Index 107

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