| Description |
xii, 285 p. : col. ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Andrea Riemenschnitter and Deborah L. Madsen -- Writing across Borders : Hong Kong's 1950s and the Present / Ping-kwan Leung -- Diaspora, Sojourn, Migration : The Transnational Dynamics of "Chineseness" / Deborah L. Madsen -- Positioning at the Margins : The Infra-Power of Middle-Class Hong Kong / Helen F. Siu -- The Yellow and the Black : Race and Diasporic Identity in Sinophone Chinese American Literature / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Between Sovereignty and Capitalism : The Historical Experiences of Migrant Chinese / Prasenjit Duara -- Exile in China during the Han Dynasty / Nicolas Zufferey -- Fantasizing the Homeland : Ji Yun's Recollections of Exile at the Western Frontier (1769-70) / Roland Altenburger -- The Voyage to Hong Kong : Bildungsroman in Hong Kong Literature of the 1950s / Mary Shuk- han Wong -- Another Diaspora : Chineseness and the Traffic in Women in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian / Pheng Cheah -- Queer Transnationalism : Literary Anthropologies from the Contact Zone / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Women and Diaspora : Zhao Shuxia's Novel Sai Jinhua and the Quest for Female Agency / Kathrin Ensinger -- Double Diaspora? "Re-presenting" Singaporeans abroad / Tamara Wagner. |
| Summary |
This work engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life.
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Immigrants' writings, Chinese -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Riemenschnitter, Andrea.
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Madsen, Deborah L.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789622090798 (hbk.) |
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9622090796 (hbk.) |
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9789622090804 (pbk.) |
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9789888052172 (electronic bk.) |
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