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Title Cultural curiosity : thirteen stories about the search for Chinese roots / edited by Josephine M.T. Khu
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)
Contents Full circle / Nancy Work -- Through a window / Graham Chan -- Travels afar / Maria Tham -- In search of Lin Jia Zhuang / Milan L. Lin-Rodrigo -- No roots, old roots / Graziella Hsu -- My father's land / Meilin Ching -- Ears attuned to two cultures / Henry Chan -- Guilt trip to China / Richard Chu -- In search of my ancestral home / Myra Sidharta -- A yellow American in China / Brad Wong -- One family, two fates / Carolyn Koo -- In my father's shadow / William Shang -- Coming home / Lily Wu
Summary This is an anthology of autobiographical essays of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these pieces, full of the details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subsequent journey each author made to China
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-272)
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Subject Chinese -- Foreign countries.
Ethnicity -- China
National characteristics, Chinese.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Chinese -- Foreign countries
Ethnicity
National characteristics, Chinese
Ausland
Ethnizität
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East.
History & Archaeology.
East Asia.
China
Chinesen.
Form Electronic book
Author Khu, Josephine M. T., 1964-
LC no. 00067224
ISBN 9780520924918
0520924916
0585389357
9780585389356
9780520223400
0520223403
9780520223417
0520223411
1597345601
9781597345606