Claiming Chinese Identity
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Claiming Chinese Identity

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Claiming Chinese Identity

About this book

This study of first generation Chinese youth and their parents who have immigrated to Houston reveals the ways in which this group resists assimilation into the dominant Western milieu and instead accommodates itself as a paracommunity with the culture of its host city. Chinese parents counter Western influence on their children by enrolling them in Chinese language schools, having them participate in Chinese community events, and encouraging them to develop a network of Chinese friends.The study presents a detailed ethnography of a Chinese language school. It traces the negotiations between traditional Chinese beliefs-in particular, unquestioned submission to authority, kinship systems, and the denial of the singular self-and the developed sense of self in Western individualism. This study of identity reformation clearly indicates that there is space within the dialectics of immigration and the related cultural processes that enables the immigrant community to resist the image of all diasporic people as liminars and hybrids. The Chinese in this study do not sacrifice their past and their values in order to reformulate themselves for the present. Rather, they are determined to create a self-referential identity within a living and growing Chinese culture.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780815329916
eBook ISBN
9781317732280
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Index

accommodation 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 33, 130, 154
achievement 120, 122, 134
see education
Africa 54, 116, 146
see Lesotho
see South Africa
Ambrose, Yeo-chi King 24, 25, 75
American-Born Chinese (ABC) xiii, 55, 93, 103, 105, 117, 119, 129, 135, 136, 140
Amoy 30, 114
Analects 76
see Confucius
Arendt, Hannah 101
Aristotle 102
Arkush, R. David 21, 22, 125
Ashton, Dore 97, 99, 100, 105
assimilation 8, 10, 33, 36, 154
Australia 54
Avedon, John 56
Bakhtin, M.M. ix, 85, 86, 87, 151
Baldwin, James 150
barbarians 26
de Bary, William Theodore 72
Baudrillard, Jean 35
behavior 16
“right” 8, 26, 75–76, 119–120, 137, 145
Beijing 39, 136
Bellaire Boulevard 11, 13, 14, 15, 46
Bellaire High School 45, 50
Berkeley
University of California 116, 130
Bernard, William S. 34
black Americans 12, 46, 69, 113, 121
Breslin, James E.B. 98, 100, 149
British 23, 30, 43
see England
Brown, George R.
see convention center
Buddhism, Buddhist 31, 72, 73, 75, 99–100, 117, 14...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Note on Transliteration
  10. Same and Different
  11. Evolution of Chinese Identity
  12. Hermeneutics
  13. A Conscious Choice of Identity
  14. Conclusion
  15. Afterword
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index