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Author:

Van Ziegert, Sylvia.

Title:

Global spaces of Chinese culture : diasporic Chinese communities in the United States and Germany / Sylvia Van Ziegert.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

vii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Chinese Americans--Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Chinese Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Chinese--Germany--Ethnic identity.
Chinese--Cultural assimilation--Germany.
Chinese--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
Transnationalism

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking the Chinese transnational imaginary -- Re-appropriating the model minority stereotype : reflections on the 2000 Organization of Chinese Americans convention -- Between being more American and being more Chinese : an ethnography of the Lowell Chinese School -- Tang poetry : the paradox of impossible return -- Between fragmentation and commodification : performing Chineseness for self and other in Lowell and Tilburg -- Transcultural performances of Chinese/German identity -- Conclusion : global spaces of Chinese culture: from Cui Jian to Crouching tiger, hidden dragon.

Series:

Studies in Asian Americans

ISBN:

9780415978903
0415978904

OCLC:

(OCoLC)63108282

LCCN:

2006000050

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)