At Home in the Chinese Diaspora Memories, Identities and Belongings

by Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng; Davidson, Andrew P.

• ISBN13: 9780230506985
• ISBN10: 0230506984
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book considers how memory, identity, and sense of belonging has helped shape Chinese migrants' understanding of self, the diasporic community (ies) , and the wider society in which they live.

Author Biography

KHUN ENG KUAH-PEARCE is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Honorary Academic Director of the Center for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong. She is the author of State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism and Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. ANDREW P. DAVIDSON is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is co-author of E-Commerce in Tourism: Use of Websites by Small Regional & Urban Tourism Enterprises and Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Diasporic Memories and Identities	p. 1
The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney	p. 12
Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia	p. 33
Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney	p. 52
Generational Identities through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs	p. 74
Moving through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s	p. 94
Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns	p. 111
Politics, Commerce and Construction of Chinese 'Otherness' in Korea: Open Port Period (1876-1910)	p. 128
Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: the Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China	p. 146
Memories, Belonging and Homemaking: Chinese Migrants in Germany	p. 164
A Century of Not Belonging - the Chinese in South Africa	p. 187
Look Who's Talking: Migrating Narratives and Identity Construction	p. 206
In Love with Music: Memory, Identity and Music in Hong Kong's Diasporic Films	p. 224
Conclusion: through the Diasporic Looking-Glass	p. 244
Index	p. 254
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