This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.

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1 Introduction: Diasporic Memories and Identities
2 The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney
3 Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia
4 Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney
5 Generational Identities through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs
6 Moving through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s
7 Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns
8 Politics, Commerce and Construction of Chinese ‘Otherness’ in Korea: Open Port Period (1876–1910)
9 Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: the Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China
10 Memories, Belonging and Homemaking: Chinese Migrants in Germany
11 A Century of Not Belonging – the Chinese in South Africa
12 Look Who’s Talking: Migrating Narratives and Identity Construction
13 In Love with Music: Memory, Identity and Music in Hong Kong’s Diasporic Films
14 Conclusion: through the Diasporic Looking-Glass
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