Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora : Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780815321620 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 272 str.

Sharon K. Hom

Opis

Examines the migratory histories of Chinese women born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, who are now inhabitants of various diaspora Chinese communities.

Spis treści

Introduction: Points of No Return, Sharon K. Hom * In America, Zhang Zhen * (Un)fracturing Images: Positioning Chinese Diaspora in Law and Culture, Margaret Woo * The Jet-Lag of a Migratory Bird, Zhang Zhen * Self-Reinstating and Coming to Conscious Aloneness, Ma Yuanxi * Deep Into Smaland, Zhang Zhen * Multiple Readings and Personal Reconfigurations Against the Nationalist Brain, Zhong Xueping * (Per)forming Law: Deformations and Transformations, Sharon K. Hom * Coming to Terms with History, Vivien Ng * Too Many Things Forgotten, Zhang Zhen * Moving into Stillness, Eleanor Yung * Beijing Two, Zhang Zhen * Growing Up Colonial and Crossing Borders: Tales from a Reporter's Notebook, Ying Chan * Roundtable on the Fourth World Conference on Women: Sharon K. Hom, Ma Yuanxi, Tan Dali, Wang Zheng, Zhong Xueping

O autorze

Sharon K. Hom