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At Home in the Chinese Diaspora

Memories, Identities and Belongings

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng

    1. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  2. Andrew P. Davidson

    1. University of New South Wales, Australia

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Diasporic Memories and Identities

    • Andrew P. Davidson, Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney

    • Andrew P. Davidson
    Pages 12-32

  4. Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia

    • David Ip
    Pages 33-51

  5. Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney

    • Walter F. Lalich
    Pages 52-73

  6. Generational Identities through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs

    • Lucille Ngan
    Pages 74-93

  7. Moving through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s

    • Andrew P. Davidson, Rosa Dai
    Pages 94-110

  8. Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns

    • Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng
    Pages 111-127

  9. Politics, Commerce and Construction of Chinese ‘Otherness’ in Korea: Open Port Period (1876–1910)

    • Sheena Choi
    Pages 128-145

  10. Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: the Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China

    • John Clammer
    Pages 146-163

  11. Memories, Belonging and Homemaking: Chinese Migrants in Germany

    • Maggi W. H. Leung
    Pages 164-186

  12. A Century of Not Belonging — the Chinese in South Africa

    • Darryl Accone, Karen Harris
    Pages 187-205

  13. Look Who’s Talking: Migrating Narratives and Identity Construction

    • Amy Lee Wai-sum
    Pages 206-223

  14. In Love with Music: Memory, Identity and Music in Hong Kong’s Diasporic Films

    • Esther M. K. Cheung
    Pages 224-243

  15. Conclusion: through the Diasporic Looking-Glass

    • Andrew P. Davidson
    Pages 244-253

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 254-259
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng

  • University of New South Wales, Australia

    Andrew P. Davidson

About the editors

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

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