K. Kuah-Pearce & A. Davidson 
At Home in the Chinese Diaspora 
Memories, Identities and Belongings

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants’ adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.

Зміст

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disaporic Memories and Identities: A.P.Davidson& K.E.Kuah-Pearce The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney: A.P.Davidson Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia: D.Ip Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney: W.Lalich Generational Identities Through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs: L.Ngan Moving Through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s: A.P.Davidson& R.Dei Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns: K.E.Kuah-Pearce Politics, Commerce, and Construction of Chinese ‘Otherness’ in Korea: Open Port Period (1876-1910): S.Choi Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: The Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China: J.Clammer Memories, Belonging and Home-making: Chinese Migrants in Germany: M.W.H. Leung A Century of Not Belonging – The Chinese in South Africa: D.Accone& K.L.Harris Look Who’s Talking: Migration Narratives and Identity Construction: A.L.Wai-sum In Love with Music: Memory, Identity, and Music in Hong Kong’s Diasporic Films: E.M.K.Cheung Conclusion: Through the Diasporic Looking-glass: A.P.Davidson Index

Про автора

DARRYL ACCONE is Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ESTHER M. K. CHEUNG is Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, School of Humanities and Director, Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SHEENA CHOI is Associate Professor, Social Foundations, School of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA JOHN CLAMMER is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan ROSA DAI is Doctorial Candidate, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of New South Wales, Australia KAREN HARRIS is Professor, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and Director of the Archives, University of Pretoria, South Africa DAVID IP is Associate Professor/Reader, Program Director, Master of Development Practice, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Australia WALTER LALICH is Associate, Australian Centre for Co-operative Research and Development, University of Technology Sydney, Australia AMY WAI-SUM LEE is Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong MAGGI LEUNG is Humboldt Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany LUCILLE NGAN is Doctorial Candidate, School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of New South Wales, Australia