Chineseness across Borders
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Chineseness across Borders

Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States

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Chineseness across Borders

Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States

About this book

What happens when Chinese American youths travel to mainland China in search of their ancestral roots, only to realize that in many ways they still feel out of place, or when mainland Chinese realize that the lives of the Chinese abroad may not be as good as they had imagined? By considering programs designed to facilitate interactions between overseas Chinese and their ancestral homelands, Andrea Louie highlights how these programs not only create opportunities for new connections but also reveal the disjunctures that now separate Chinese Americans from China and mainland Chinese from the Chinese abroad.

Louie focuses on "In Search of Roots," a program that takes young Chinese American adults of Cantonese descent to visit their ancestral villages in China's Guangdong province. Through ethnographic interviews and observation, Louie examines the experiences of Chinese Americans both during village visits in China and following their participation in the program, which she herself took part in as an intern and researcher. She presents a vivid portrait of two populations who, though connected through family ties generations back, are meeting for the first time in the context of a rapidly changing contemporary China. Louie situates the participants' and hosts' shifting understandings of China and Chineseness within the context of transnational flows of people, media, goods, and money; China's political and economic policies; and the racial and cultural politics of the United States.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: On Boundary Crossings
  4. 1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese/Chinese American Roots
  5. 2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour
  6. 3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of U.S. Multiculturalism
  7. 4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan): Changing Views of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy
  8. 5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter between the Chinese and Chinese American Other
  9. 6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness
  10. Epilogue
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index