Title The Chinese face in Australia : multi-generational ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese / Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan, Chan Kwok-bun

Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Chineseness and the Chinese Diaspora -- Constructing and Performing Chineseness -- The Voice of a Woman: Doreen Cheong -- The Voice of a Man: Reg Mu Sung -- Authenticity and Physicality: Chineseness in Cultural and Racial Discourses -- Chineseness Through the Life Course -- Decentered Linkages and Hybridity: The Ambivalence of Chineseness as Identity -- Conclusion Summary The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of âChineseness.â At a social and experiential level, it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience, negotiate and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid identity construction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants and to the sojournerâs sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in the debate over Chinese diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-term migrant communities. Their experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over successive generations. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation on multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three to six generations, this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification Analysis Social sciences Psychology, clinical Applied psychology Sociology, general Cross Cultural Psychology Clinical Psychology sociologie sociology psychologie psychology sociale wetenschappen Social Sciences (General) Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Chinese -- Australia -- Ethnic identity SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Sciences sociales. Sciences humaines. Chinese -- Ethnic identity Emigration and immigration Ethnic relations SUBJECT Australia -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007005690 Australia -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007504 Subject Australia Form Electronic book Author Chan, Kwok B. ISBN 9781461421313 1461421314 9781461421306 1461421306

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