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

ISBN-13: 9780789010551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 122 str.

May Pao-May Tung

Opis

Based on culture-related themes derived from Tung's own psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese American professionals, the author, a clinical psychologist in San Francisco, sees the personal problems of Chinese Americans largely arising from the internalized clash of Chinese and American cultures. This non-clinical work aims to help Chinese Amer

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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