Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values

ISBN-13: 9780789010568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 122 str.

May Paomay Tung

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Full of personal vignettes, humor, and interesting insights, Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values demonstrates how some Chinese Americans are connecting historical and cultural meanings to their Chinese roots and bridging generational gaps between themselves and their parents. Based on a therapist's findings after working with several young clients, this informative resource examines several key points that set apart these two cultures, including: -- the roles of men and women within several different contexts in American and Chinese societies -- language barriers that make it difficult to express concepts -- the family structure of the Chinese that fosters interdependence, while American culture admires independence -- fear that Chinese immigrant parents have of losing their strong family ties and seeing their children not practicing traditional customs because they do not want to be perceived as different by peers

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Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. What Is in a Name? Culture and Personal Boundary
• What Is in a Chinese Name?
• Individual Persons in Chinese Context
• The Great Wall Mentality: Boundary As Reflected in Dwellings
• Chapter 2. The Environment for Chinese-American Self-Identity
• The Process of Self-Identification
• Chinese-American Self-Identity
• “E. T. Phone Home”: Roots of the “Self”
• Chapter 3. “You Have a Chinese What?!”: Internalized Inferiority
• “Asianness as a Liability”
• Self-Representation
• Yes, Even in China
• Chapter 4. Emotions: Coping Style, Allocation, and Communication
• Worldviews and Coping Styles
• Allocation and Communication of Emotions
• Emotional Awareness for Chinese Americans
• Chapter 5. Moving Out from the Shadow of the Eclipse: Integration
• In America
• In China
• Chapter 6. Ancestral Ghosts Meet Superman: A New Cycle of Chinese Immigrants
• References
• Index  

O autorze

Terry S Trepper, May Tung