Diasporic histories : cultural archives of Chinese transnationalism /

Diasporic histories : cultural archives of Chinese transnationalism / edited by Andrea Riemenschnitter and Deborah L. Madsen. - Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2009. - 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.

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.

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.

9789888052172 (electronic bk.) 9888052179 (electronic bk.)

9786612708794

270879 MIL


Chinese diaspora.
Chinese--Intellectual life.--Foreign countries
Immigrants' writings, Chinese--History and criticism.
Chinois--Pays étrangers.
Chinois--Vie intellectuelle.--Pays étrangers
HISTORY--World.
Chinese diaspora.
Immigrants' writings, Chinese.
Literatur
Kulturleben
Auswanderer


Chinesen.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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