Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

ISBN-13: 9780415546706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str.

Chan Kwok-Bun

Opis

Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society. With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity in a range of established places of convergence, Chan draws on extensive experience and knowledge in the field to bring the reader a fresh, fascinating and ultimately very human analysis of migration, culture, identity and the self.

Spis treści

Prologue: When Strangers Meet  1. Rethinking Assimilation and Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand  2. Civic Identity and Chinese Ethnicity in a Market Town in Thailand  3. The Migrant Family Drama of Mainland Chinese Immigrants in Singapore  4. The Ethnicity Paradox of Hong Kong Immigrants in Singapore  5. One Face, Many Masks: The Singularity and Plurality of Chinese Identity in Singapore  6. Migration, Dispersal, and the Chinese Cosmopolitan  7. Epilogue: Inner Hybridity in the City

O autorze

Chan Kwok-bun is Head of the Department of Sociology and Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at the Baptist University of Hong Kong.