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Lee, Regina. "Theorising the Chinese diaspora: Chinese Canadian and Chinese Australian narratives." Thesis, Lee, Regina (2005) Theorising the Chinese diaspora: Chinese Canadian and Chinese Australian narratives. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/155/.
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This dissertation presents a study of Chinese diasporic narratives from Canada and Australia and examines the formation and negotiation of diasporic cultural identity and consciousness. Drawing upon theoretical discussions on diasporas in general, it investigates how the Chinese diaspora is imagined and represented, as a visible minority group, within the context of the multicultural nation state.
This dissertation begins with a taxonomy of the modes of explaining diaspora and offers three ways of theorising diasporic consciousness. In analysing the filmic and fictional narrative forms of the Chinese in Canada and Australia, the practices of cultural self-representation and of minority group participation and enjoyment of the nation are foregrounded in order to advance critical analysis of the Chinese diaspora. While taking into account the heterogeneity of the imagined diasporic Chinese community, this study also contends that the formation and negotiation of diasporic consciousness and diasporic cultural identity politics is strongly and invariably affected by the multicultural conditions and policies of their host countries. The adaptation and manifestation of minority groups' cultural practices are thus a matter of social, cultural and political contingencies more often aligned with dominant cultural expectations and manipulations than with the assertiveness of more empowered minority group participation. This dissertation therefore argues for a broader and more complex understanding of diasporic cultural and identity politics in the widespread attempts to merge and incorporate minority group narratives into the key foundational ('grand') narratives of the white nation state. The importance of reinscribing Chinese diasporic histories into the cultural landscapes of their receiving countries is moreover increasingly propelled by the speed and momentum of globalisation that has resulted in the growing number of multicultural societies on the one hand but also led to the homogenisation of cultural differences and diversities.
In focussing on the fictional and filmic narratives from Canada and Australia, the diversity of the Chinese diasporic community and their conditions are emphasised in order to reflect upon the differences in the administration and practice of multiculturalism in these two countries. The comparative reading of Chinese-Canadian and Chinese-Australian novels and films locates its analysis of notions of 'homeland' and belonging, community and national and cultural citizenship within the context of the development and negotiation of diasporic identity politics.
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Lee, Regina. "Theorising the Chinese diaspora: Chinese Canadian and Chinese Australian narratives." Lee, Regina (2005) Theorising the Chinese diaspora: Chinese Canadian and Chinese Australian narratives. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2005. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/155/.
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This dissertation presents a study of Chinese diasporic narratives from Canada and Australia and examines the formation and negotiation of diasporic cultural identity and consciousness. Drawing upon theoretical discussions on diasporas in general, it investigates how the Chinese diaspora is imagined and represented, as a visible minority group, within the context of the multicultural nation state.
This dissertation begins with a taxonomy of the modes of explaining diaspora and offers three ways of theorising diasporic consciousness. In analysing the filmic and fictional narrative forms of the Chinese in Canada and Australia, the practices of cultural self-representation and of minority group participation and enjoyment of the nation are foregrounded in order to advance critical analysis of the Chinese diaspora. While taking into account the heterogeneity of the imagined diasporic Chinese community, this study also contends that the formation and negotiation of diasporic consciousness and diasporic cultural identity politics is strongly and invariably affected by the multicultural conditions and policies of their host countries. The adaptation and manifestation of minority groups' cultural practices are thus a matter of social, cultural and political contingencies more often aligned with dominant cultural expectations and manipulations than with the assertiveness of more empowered minority group participation. This dissertation therefore argues for a broader and more complex understanding of diasporic cultural and identity politics in the widespread attempts to merge and incorporate minority group narratives into the key foundational ('grand') narratives of the white nation state. The importance of reinscribing Chinese diasporic histories into the cultural landscapes of their receiving countries is moreover increasingly propelled by the speed and momentum of globalisation that has resulted in the growing number of multicultural societies on the one hand but also led to the homogenisation of cultural differences and diversities.
In focussing on the fictional and filmic narratives from Canada and Australia, the diversity of the Chinese diasporic community and their conditions are emphasised in order to reflect upon the differences in the administration and practice of multiculturalism in these two countries. The comparative reading of Chinese-Canadian and Chinese-Australian novels and films locates its analysis of notions of 'homeland' and belonging, community and national and cultural citizenship within the context of the development and negotiation of diasporic identity politics.
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Ly, Tio Fane-Pineo Huguette. "Chinese diaspora in Western Indian Ocean /." [Rose Hill : [Mauritius] : Mauritius] : Éditions de l'Océan Indien ; Chinese catholic mission, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36631208d.
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Lu, Jiajie. "Understanding the Chinese diaspora: The identity construction of diasporic Chinese in the age of digital media." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112817/1/Jiajie_Lu_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates the formation of diasporic Chinese identity in the current media landscape. Through reviewing the history of Chinese emigration and the evolution of Chinese identity, this thesis proposes mediated social interaction as a new approach to the formation of Chinese identity. Following this proposal, this thesis explores how the social interactions and patterns of the Chinese diaspora in Australia have changed under the influences of media development. This research finds that transnational communications with family and friends in China via social media have become a significant part of Chinese diaspora's social life hence they are more socially and culturally connected with China than before. Simultaneously, diaspora Chinese use different social media platforms to maintain different social networks. They deliberately present different aspects of their national and parochial identity to adapt to different social settings.
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Voon, Philip H. K. "Evangelizing the diaspora Chinese with Chinese cultural background in Malaysia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Costa, Marília Borges. "Fios diaspóricos nas narrativas de "The woman warrior", de Maxine Hong Kingston." Universidade de São Paulo, 2003. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09042003-174326/.
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O presente trabalho focaliza os processos de formação da identidade, observados em narrativas da escritora sino-americana Maxine Hong Kingston. Documentando as contradições e a fragmentação do sujeito, procura-se iluminar os vários sentidos de subjetividade presentes em uma pessoa de origem chinesa que vive nos Estados Unidos na época da pós-modernidade. O quadro teórico utilizado na análise desses processos é construído a partir da crítica sobre o romance pósmoderno e dos estudos culturais sobre a diáspora. Focaliza-se o livro de memórias da autora, The woman warrior memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, publicado pela primeira vez em 1976. Desde meados do século XVIII, um grande número de imigrantes asiáticos deslocou-se para os Estados Unidos, trazendo consigo seus próprios valores materiais e espirituais e seus distintos padrões de comportamento. A formação das gerações que cresceram nessa encruzilhada de culturas só poderia ser difícil e conflituosa. Esta dissertação procura descobrir, por um lado, como se efetivam os processos de identificação dos sino-americanos, visto que estão sujeitos a dois sistemas de valor diferentes e, por outro, como se articulam os diversos elementos culturais, tanto na constituição da identidade das personagens como na construção do romance. As narrativas de Maxine Hong Kingston revelam processos de hibridização, característicos de um autor diaspórico.This dissertation deals with the processes of identity formation as observed in the works of the Chinese-American writer Maxine Hong Kingston, especially in her book The woman warrior memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, first published in 1976. The different meanings of subjectivity that can take shape in an American of Chinese descent, encompassing an individuals contradictions and fragmentation, are analyzed. The theoretical framework is based on critics of postmodernism and on cultural studies about diasporas. Since the middle of the eighteenth century a great number of Asian immigrants moved to the United States, taking along with them their different values and behavior patterns. A person growing up in the intersection of cultures has to deal with conflicts and paradoxes, resulting in identities that are contradictory and fragmentary. This dissertation seeks to unravel, on one hand, the processes of identity formation among the Chinese-Americans, faced as they are by two distinct value systems. On the other hand, find out how the different cultural elements are articulated both in the identity formation of the characters and in the construction of the novel. The narratives of Maxine Hong Kingston reveal processes of hybridization, which are characteristic of a diasporic author.
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Tong, Anne. "Chinese Food in Australia: Diaspora, taste, and affect." Thesis, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18228.
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This thesis examines the political and cultural significance of Chinese food in Australia by considering its specific discourses and representations. It begins by mapping the politicised history of early Chinese food in the 19th century and considers the circumstances underpinning its emergence and later proliferation. Building on cultural studies scholarship about migration and food from Australia and the United States, this thesis examines the interrelated link between migration and the generation of new cultural products. I reframe westernised Chinese food as an innovative and necessary response from the Chinese community. By identifying the adaptable and creative nature of Chinese food (and people), I problematise the belief that westernised Chinese food is “inauthentic” and a complete victim to western supremacy. This thesis indicates how Chinese food is an effective place from which to understand differences, identity, and power. Situating Chinese food in the 21st century, I analyse how notions and tastes for it have changed over time, within the Chinese Australian diaspora and more broadly. With a focus on material examples and auto-ethnography, I examine how intergenerational and cultural differences in the diaspora can influence what we eat and how we eat. Cautious not to undermine the structuring effects of racism and class privilege in food discourses, I consider how whiteness and middle-upper class “tastemakers” shape how we perceive and relate to Chinese food. Finally, this thesis considers the capacities of Chinese food by looking at the visceral feelings and affects it can produce. I examine how commensality (eating together) can help encourage new ways of thinking, feeling, sharing, and relating. Ultimately, this thesis moves toward a view of Chinese food that embraces multiplicities and variance, as opposed to singularities and tradition.
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au, r. lee@murdoch edu, and Regina Lee. "Theorising the Chinese Diaspora: Canadian and Australian Narratives." Murdoch University, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060418.160334.
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This dissertation presents a study of Chinese diasporic narratives from Canada and Australia and examines the formation and negotiation of diasporic cultural identity and consciousness. Drawing upon theoretical discussions on diasporas in general, it investigates how the Chinese diaspora is imagined and represented, as a visible minority group, within the context of the multicultural nation state.
This dissertation begins with a taxonomy of the modes of explaining diaspora and offers three ways of theorising diasporic consciousness. In analysing the filmic and fictional narrative forms of the Chinese in Canada and Australia, the practices of cultural self-representation and of minority group participation and enjoyment of the nation are foregrounded in order to advance critical analysis of the Chinese diaspora. While taking into account the heterogeneity of the imagined diasporic Chinese community, this study also contends that the formation and negotiation of diasporic consciousness and diasporic cultural identity politics is strongly and invariably affected by the multicultural conditions and policies of their host countries. The adaptation and manifestation of minority groups cultural practices are thus a matter of social, cultural and political contingencies more often aligned with dominant cultural expectations and manipulations than with the assertiveness of more empowered minority group participation. This dissertation therefore argues for a broader and more complex understanding of diasporic cultural and identity politics in the widespread attempts to merge and incorporate minority group narratives into the key foundational (grand) narratives of the white nation state. The importance of reinscribing Chinese diasporic histories into the cultural landscapes of their receiving countries is moreover increasingly propelled by the speed and momentum of globalisation that has resulted in the growing number of multicultural societies on the one hand but also led to the homogenisation of cultural differences and diversities.
In focussing on the fictional and filmic narratives from Canada and Australia, the diversity of the Chinese diasporic community and their conditions are emphasised in order to reflect upon the differences in the administration and practice of multiculturalism in these two countries. The comparative reading of Chinese-Canadian and Chinese-Australian novels and films locates its analysis of notions of homeland and belonging, community and national and cultural citizenship within the context of the development and negotiation of diasporic identity politics.
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Uesugi, Takeshi. "Slippery bridge : Chinese diaspora and narratives of self and community." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79983.
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This thesis examines the identities and the narratives of Overseas Chinese. Through discussing their history, I explore how the overseas Chinese came to imagine themselves as a community called 'Chinese Diaspora', which is ostensibly held together by the imagination of a 'homeland' in a faraway place in the distant past. By examining autobiographical texts, I discuss how the 'Chineseness' they maintained throughout the migration is founded upon such a virtual reality, and how this in turn is experienced by the individuals. Taking the narratives as something that both reflect and construct their identities, I explore the conundrum women in diaspora face in representing their own experiences of the community on the basis of Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir. Chinese women of diaspora have particular difficulties in claiming their individuality through narrations, especially because the community that sustains the 'traditional' Chineseness is rapidly transforming.
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Hoon, Chang-Yau. "Reconceptualising ethnic Chinese identity in post-Suharto Indonesia /." Connect to this title, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0065.
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Lee, Woon-yee Peggy. "The cultural politics of the Hong Kong diaspora (in Canada) /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22050322.
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Chen, Xu. "Dating, digital media, and diaspora: Contextualising the cultural uses of Tinder and Tantan among Australian Chinese diasporas." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202944/1/Xu_Chen_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines how Australian Chinese communities engage with dating apps Tinder and Tantan. With digital ethnographic approaches, it investigates the experiences of 23 interview participants - mainly young first-generation migrants from mainland China - on Tinder and Tantan in Australia. In doing so, it generates empirical evidences for research focusing on dating apps and dating practices among young Chinese people living in Australia. It deepens our understandings of how ethnic, sexual, and gender-related dynamics afforded by digital technologies intersect with Chinese identity negotiations.
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Ling-yin, Lynn Ang. "A question of 'Chineseness' : the Chinese diaspora in Singapore 1819-1950s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2393.
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This thesis is a study of the Chinese diaspora in Singapore from 1819 to the 1950s. It begins by situating the diasporic subject in a historical context, highlighting some of the key moments in the diaspora's development, such as the advent of colonialism during the nineteenth century, and the formation of an ethnic enclave in the settlement. The discussion then calls into question the construction of the Chinese subject in colonial discourses, and interrogates the ways in which the diasporic population was constituted within the framework of colonialism. The main purpose has been to examine how the diaspora in Singapore has evolved, and to explore the adequacies, or inadequacies, of existing diasporic theories in the ways they relate to the Chinese experience. This is achieved by recapitulating the theoretical implications of existing diaspora frameworks, and questioning the tensions and limitations generated by such discourses. Simultaneously, this study takes into consideration the construction of a "Chinese identity", and does so by presenting possible ways of conceptualisng what it means to be "Chinese" for subjects of the diaspora. In discussing the extent to which the subject's sense of "self" and belonging has been shaped by its immigrant past, this research draws on and studies the writings, both literary and non-literary, that have emerged from the community. A central concern in all this is the identity and subjectivity of the diasporic subject, and the point here is that not every subject experiences diaspora in the same way, but that these alterities are important in the constitution and formation of a Chinese identity. As I note in the introduction, the issue of what it means to be Chinese, and indeed, the issue of home and belonging, is one that is always contested for people in the diasporic community, and the aim of this thesis has been to continually deconstruct the idea of a "single" Chinese diaspora, and to expose it as a heterogeneous, fragmented, and internally differentiated construction.
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Wu, Yen-Ting. "Musical development of young children of the Chinese diaspora in London." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10054055/.
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The thesis investigates the musical behaviour and development of young, pre-school children of the Chinese diaspora in London. There has been rapid growth in the Chinese population in the UK over the last three decades, yet little is known about of the nature and significance of the diaspora in young children’s musical development. Two theoretical frameworks were used to frame the nature of the research. Firstly, pre-school musical behaviour in the home was investigated through the Sounds of Intent in the Early Years framework (Ockelford, 2015; Voyajolu & Ockelford, 2016). Secondly, different aspects of the young child’s socio-musical environment were examined using Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; 2005). Data collection involved two interrelated phases. In the exploratory stage, twenty Chinese mothers were interviewed individually to investigate their musical biographies and values, and their children’s musical engagement in the family. In the main fieldwork phase, ten of these mothers kept a regular diary of their children’s musical behaviours over six months, supplemented by optional video recordings and photographs. Two further interviews were also undertaken. Subsequently, four individual children from three families were selected for case study analyses, and these were compared with the dataset of the other participants to gain a comprehensive picture. Findings suggest that these young children’s musical development was both age-related and context-dependent. Potential socio-cultural factors included the local environment, members of the family and their community settings, which were embedded in various cultural impacts. The Chinese identity held by these families informed daily music and language exposure for these young children. In addition, parents believed in the value of music learning as a way to nurture good character. Novel findings from this study highlighted the distinctive nature of these young children’s musical experiences and development within the Chinese diaspora in London and raised awareness of the diverse nature of the musical environment of children before formal education. Musical behaviours were both characteristic of early childhood, but also distinctive in the ways that they were embedded in Chinese cultural artefacts.
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Chunjing, Liu. "Seeking identity between worlds: A study of selected Chinese American fiction." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5176.
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Magister Artium - MAThe literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between ancestral Chinese traditional culture and the modernity of Western culture. This thesis explores diaspora theory, as elaborated by Stuart Hall, Homi Bhabha, Gabriel Sheffer and others to establish a framework for the analysis of key Chinese American literary works. Maxine Hong Kingston's seminal novel, The Woman Warrior (1975), will be analysed as an exemplary instance of diasporic identity, where the Chinese cultural heritage is reinterpreted and re-imagined from the point of view of an emancipated woman living in the West. A comparative analysis will be undertaken of Jade Snow Wong's The Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989) to identify links between the writers who have grappled with various forms of diasporic identity in their works. An important part of this analysis is the representation and adaptation of Chinese folklore and traditional tales in Chinese American literary works.
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李媛怡 and Woon-yee Peggy Lee. "The cultural politics of the Hong Kong diaspora (in Canada)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222985.
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Chung, Eun-Ju. "Learning to be Chinese: The Cultural Politics of Chinese Ethnic Schooling and Diaspora Construction in Contemporary Korea." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10411.
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In this dissertation, I examine the particular diaspora construction of the overseas Chinese in South Korea focusing on their educational practice, and looking at how it relates to and reflects their identities and subjectivities. The Chinese in Korea, or Korean huaqiaos, have no parallel in that they still retain Chinese (Taiwanese) nationality despite their over one hundred years of settlement in Korea, and in that most opt for full-time Chinese ethnic schooling with exclusively Taiwanese-administered curriculum and support. Different from the previous discussions arguing the nation-making role of the state-sponsored mass education through transmitting national culture and language, in a Chinese high school in Seoul, Korea, I observed that ethnic schooling worked to connect the scattering Chinese in Korea as a community by letting them share similar social, legal, and cultural conditions. Drawing on school documents, student writings, and interviews and discussions with ethnic Chinese students, teachers, parents, and related organization leaders, I elucidate the role of their ethnic education which is transforming as a strategy to deal with one of the most brutal social qualification-college entrance- in Korean society, and as a symbol through which they can remain Chinese diasporans. Students’ indifference to their schoolwork seems to defeat expectations of Chinese heritage transmission, or the making of allies for the ROC. This situation results from changes derived from the Taiwanese political changes against them, and also from the conviction passed down over generations about the futility of hard work due to their minority situation in Korea. Even being aware of their ethnic schools’ failure to properly educate their children in Chinese language and culture, almost all Korean huaqiaos keep sending their children there, unable to resist the immediate admissions advantage foreign high school graduates gain in entering Korean universities, and not wishing to be excluded from their own ethnic community by not attending the same ethnic schools. The way Korean huaqiaos deal with their ethnic education is a typical example revealing their collective characteristics they themselves talked about – “opportunistic”, “gossip-bound”, or “not stepping forward to act” - and I analyzed these self-defined particular Chineseness has been formed while they have gone through continuous unsteady socio-political processes. Through chapters that provide analyses of the historical Korea-China relationship, the context in which Chinese came to settle in Korea, and the ever-changing three-way relationship among Korea, Taiwan and mainland China, I discuss how Korean huaqiaos have formed and transformed their nationality, emotional and cultural belonging, and their unstable legal and social statuses as non-local nationals. This study on the atypical results of Chinese border-crossing and of ethnic education is based on three years of ethnographic field research in the Seoul Chinese High School and in other various social and cultural arenas of the Chinese community in Korea. And it offers a contextualized study of Chinese diaspora which contributes to debunking a generalized and reified imaginary of Chinese, and an ethnographic account of diaspora educational practice which also calls for a new concept of citizenship in this ever-globalizing era.Anthropology
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Zhao, Tian-ying 1972. "Internet and diaspora : the experience of mainland Chinese immigrant women in Montreal." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83156.
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This study examines the role of the Internet in the life of diasporic women. Twenty-nine qualitative interviews were conducted with Mainland Chinese immigrant women in Montreal, Canada to answer three research questions: (1) what is the use and value of the Internet as perceived by these women; (2) how have they experienced the Internet given their particular social situation as immigrants in Montreal; and (3) what diasporic identities are related to these women's Internet practices. The research found that the Internet was perceived by these women mainly as a tool to obtain information, facilitate communication, and access recreation. Its appropriation reflected their special social situation as immigrants and women. Their Internet experience was largely involved in the reproduction of their identification with China, Canada and the Mainland Chinese diaspora, and in some case, in the production of new cultural positions. The study also suggests directions for future research.
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Wang, Sha. "The sociocultural milieux of 'Chinese' language learning in Belfast : diaspora and difference." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2017. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-sociocultural-milieux-of-chinese-language-learning-in-belfast-diaspora-and-difference(383642ea-1349-47c9-80c9-a0f9f0c32dcf).html.
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This dissertation investigates Mandarin and Cantonese language learning and Chinese identity formation amongst young people of Chinese descent in Northern Ireland. It explores their attitude to language learning in domestic and Chinese Language School (CLS) environments and their parents’ and teachers’ engagement. Looking at this broader social context, it investigates the inter-linkage between linguistic practices and claimed ‘Chinese identities’, the formation of ‘Chinese community’ through linguistic practices; and the workings of diasporic institutions such as Chinese language schools. It pays close attention to the ways in which individual differences and life trajectories inform practices of community and family making through linguistic performance. The research is based on the theoretical framework of ethnicity and identification; diaspora and community dynamics; individual trajectory; migration and transnationalism; linguistic anthropology and studies on Chinese migration and Chinese migration in Northern Ireland. The central research question is: How do practices of Mandarin and Cantonese language learning amongst children of Chinese origin in Belfast reflect, inform or undermine specific discourses and performances of identity and belonging? To address this question, the dissertation focuses on several sub-themes. What are the Chinese migrant children’s linguistic practices and Chinese language learning experiences in the domestic environment and the Chinese Language Schools in Northern Ireland? What are the reasons and motivation for their linguistic behaviour and attitude? What are the Chinese parents’ expectation and attitudes towards Chinese language education in Northern Ireland? To what extent do the parents’ efforts affect children’s performance at the language schools? The research is based on several methods, including participant-observation in school events, teachers’ meetings and classes; semi-structured and in-depth interviews with migrant Chinese parents and teachers; questionnaires with pupils from CLS and visual and audio data collection.
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Chen, Li. "Chinese diaspora and Western Australian nature (Perth region): A study of material engagement with the natural world in diasporic culture." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2016.
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Based on an ethnographic study of the everyday practices of diasporic Chinese residents of Perth, this project focuses on the relationship between the ecologic environment and diasporic Chinese cultures in contemporary Western Australia.
With the acceleration of globalization, studies in diaspora have increasingly absorbed geographic ideas. Research on the relationship between ecology and humankind has thrown new light on discussions of diaspora. However, there are few in-depth studies addressing the construction of diasporic place and space with an engagement of the material world. Considering the relative absence of the natural world as a serious subject in contemporary diaspora studies, the starting point of this project is to explore the interactive relationships between place, space, and diasporic people via their everyday experiences. What is the meaning of nature to Chinese people living in Australia? How do they communicate with the natural world in their daily life and what is the dynamic relationship between the people and the environment?
In order to find the answers to these research questions, I adopt sensory ethnography, multispecies ethnography and sensory studies of food as the major approaches. As an insider ethnographer, I have examined diasporic multisensoriality through the ethnographic practices of interviews, observation, filed documentation (notes, photos, sound recordings), film documentation (video documentation of abalone harvesting in chapter 8) and self-reflective composition within a dynamic assemblage of human and nonhuman agentic beings. Sensory studies of food provide a way to understand the dynamic relations between the materials in diets and Chinese people on individual, ethnic and diasporic scales. Along with the theoretical themes of place, space, food, perception, memory and imagination, this research traverses diverse ethnographic disciplines as an academic practice.
In this research, I present several typical cases of everyday spatial practices, abalone recreational harvesting, and Chinese vegetable gardening. As an ethnographic study, the project has involved more than twenty specific participants. In the last two years, I have interviewed groups, individuals and families, and joined them in wine tasting, cultural celebrations, abalone harvesting and vegetable gardening. In addition, due to my previous background in documentary filmmaking, I have made an illustrative film on the topic of abalone harvesting.
Through the research on the cases, I found that there is an intimate, dialogical and reciprocal connection between the Chinese diaspora in Perth and the local physical environment. With the embodied engagement of the natural surroundings in their daily experiences, Chinese people living in Perth have gradually converted their perceptions of nature, which are also under the influence of traditional cultures. Acting as a space and an agent, the ecological environment has become familiar and domestic in the people’s diasporic experiences. Additionally, daily practices in the material surroundings have also transformed the people’s self-perceptions through their senses, reflections and attitudes toward the natural world. At the same time, the natural environment is impacted upon in myriad ways by the activities of diasporic Chinese.
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Chen, Albert Yi Fu 1967. "Art and social dislocation : a Chinese diasporic condition." Monash University, Dept. of Fine Arts, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5203.
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Reyhan, Dilnur. "Le rôle des technologies d'information et de communication (TIC) dans la contruction des nouvelles diasporas : le cas de la diaspora Ouïghoure." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAG003.
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Cette thèse s’intéresse aux rôles des TIC dans la constitution de la diaspora ouïghoure. L’approche sociologique choisie a permis d’aborder cette question sous l’angle politique et communicationnelle mais aussi historique et géographique et de prendre en compte tant les aspects idéologiques, sociaux qu’institutionnels et organisationnels. Les communautés ouïghoures à l’étranger commencent à être visibles et créent des organisations officielles représentant leur cause. La première partie met en évidence un réseau complexe constitué des communautés ouïghoures institutionalisées qui sont en interaction entre elles et avec le pays d’origine à travers les TIC, le Congrès Mondial Ouïghour rassemblant la majorité de ces associations. La deuxième partie montre à travers les analyses quantitatives et qualitatives de la cartographie du web ouïghour 2010 et 2016, l’apport et des limites des TIC dans le processus de construction de la diaspora. Cette analyse croisée a permis dans la troisième partie de comprendre et d’interpréter les formes d’identités qui se construisent : identité ethno-nationale ou ethno-culturelle ou ethno- religieuse, et les compromis sociaux qui tentent de se déterminer par des processus de négociation dans l’espace virtuel et au sein des institutions. Ce travail de recherche dévoile les différentes finalités recherchées par les acteurs tant officiels que lambda et de voir dans quelle mesure de nouvelles formes de régulations sont susceptibles d’aboutir à un nouveau compromis entre les acteurs. Mais pour l’instant, il n’existe ni de stratégie commune, en particulier vis-à-vis des politiques à tenir face à la Chine, ni une identité commune, mais des identités de la migration ouïghoureThis thesis focuses on the constitutive role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Uyghur diaspora. The sociological approach adopted in this thesis not only examines the aspects of politics and communication of this issue, but also allows a historical and geographical study which also takes into account the ideological, social, institutional and organizational points of view, as Uyghur communities abroad start to be visible and create formal organizations representing their cause. The first section of the thesis highlights, through ICT, a complex network of institutionalized Uyghur communities that interact with each other and their countries of origin, and demonstrates that the World Uyghur Congress is the most dominant of these associations. The second section shows, through quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mapping of the Uyghur web in 2010 and in 2016, the contributions and limitations of ICT in the diaspora construction process. This cross analysis sheds light in the third section on the forms of identities that are constructed, such as ethno-national, ethno-cultural or ethno-religious identity, and the social compromises tentatively formed through the negotiation process in virtual space and in the institutions. This study reveals the different purposes sought by both official and lambda actors and examines how new forms of regulation are likely to reach a new compromise between the actors. Presently, however, there is neither a common strategy, particularly vis-a-vis the political dealings with China, nor a common identity, but different identities of the Uyghur migration
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Bonnerjee, Jayani Jeanne. "Neighbourhood, city, diaspora : identity and belonging for Calcutta's Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/400.
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This thesis is located in the wider debates in postcolonial cultural geography on the city and diaspora. It engages with everyday lived spaces of Calcutta’s Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities through a focus on ideas of home, identity, belonging, cosmopolitanism and nostalgia. Drawing on overlapping narratives of these two communities in the city and in diaspora in London and Toronto, the thesis explores the idea of Calcutta as a ‘diaspora city’ and also the notion of a ‘Calcutta diaspora’. It explores the material and imaginative entanglements of migration and places narratives of identity and belonging for its Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in the context of the city. Both Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities have been an integral part of Calcutta’s colonial and postcolonial histories, and although many members of both communities have migrated elsewhere in recent times, the city remains an important locus of emotional register. It is in this context that the thesis studies everyday lived spaces at different scales: in the neighbourhood, in the city and in diaspora. While the actual spaces are located/ rooted in real neighbourhoods and cities inhabited by the communities, the imagination of these spaces both in the city and in diaspora also intersect to create a more complex relationship between minority communities and cities. Methodologically, the thesis has adopted a multi-sited, qualitative approach to follow the lives of the communities across cities. Whilst a large part of the material has been drawn from in-depth interviews, the thesis also uses material drawn through ethnographic research and participant observation at community events, maps of the neighbourhood and city drawn by interviewees and secondary material such as community publications and websites, films, pamphlets and newspaper reports.
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Shen, Shuang. "Self, nations, and the diaspora re-reading Lin Yutang, Bai Xianyong, and Frank Chin /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1998. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9820580.
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Tan, Carole A. "'Chinese Inscriptions': Australian-born Chinese Lives." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/1826/1/1826_abstract.pdf.
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This thesis represents a transdisciplinary study based on qualitative research and critical analysis of oral history interviews and the personal narratives of sixty-seven Australian-born Chinese. It uses cultural studies approaches to investigate the diverse ways Chineseness becomes inscribed into the lives of Australian-born Chinese. It investigates diverse ways Chineseness becomes inscribed into the lives of Australian-born Chinese within three social and cultural spaces Australian-born Chinese inhabit. These are the family, mainstream Australian society and Chinese diasporic spaces located in China and Australia. In examining these three social and cultural spaces, this study seeks to demonstrate that Chineseness represents an inescapable ‘reality’ Australian-born Chinese are compelled to confront in their everyday lives. This ‘reality’ exists despite rights of birth, generational longevity, and strong national and cultural identities and identifications grounded in Australia, and whether or not Australian-born Chinese willingly choose to identify as ‘Chinese’. Nevertheless, despite the limits of Chineseness Australian-born Chinese experience in their lives, this study demonstrates that Australian-born Chinese are individual agents who devise a range of strategies and tactics which empower them to negotiate Chineseness in relevant and meaningful ways of their own choosing.
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Li, Tingting, and 李亭亭. "The role of OCAO in promoting Chinese diaspora tourism: a case of Jiangmen FOCAB." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45516625.
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Kuo, Yang-Yi. "Lost homelands reinvented : material culture of the Chinese diaspora and their family in Taiwan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10040933/.
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This research delves into the everyday practice of the now-elderly Waishengren, the Chinese diaspora in Taiwan, who retreated from China to Taiwan after World War II. The thesis compares and contrasts how Waishengren and their family, either from mainland China or the island of Taiwan, make sense of dwelling in Taiwan for more than a half century, and how they define their relationship with other (imagined) ethnic groups in Taiwan through material culture. This is revealed by (1) interviewing Waishengren and their families; (2) phenomenologically describing public and domestic space; (3) investigating the (in)significance of homes and homelands to them, and (4) exploring the way the Waishengren situate themselves in a time of emerging ‘Taiwanese statehood’. Semi-structured interviews with 40 households were conducted in LN Village in Hsinchu City of Northern Taiwan, and photographs, maps, spatial diagrams, floor plans, selected socio-spatial data and archives are exhibited and analysed in order to further understand how the Chinese diaspora and their family construct multiple identities through homes and potted-plant gardens in contemporary Taiwan.
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Li, Haili. "Queer diaspora and digital intimacy: Chinese queer women's practices for using Rela and HER in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212527/1/Haili_Li_Thesis.pdf.
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This research explores Chinese queer women’s practices for using lesbian social and dating apps such as Rela and HER in Australia. It highlights how social and cultural contexts played instrumental roles in shaping the development trajectories and technological infrastructures of Rela and HER and the Australia-based Chinese queer women’s digital intimacy practices. Findings in this thesis enrich our understanding of queer diasporas and their digital media use in cross-cultural and transnational contexts.
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Li, Zhipeng. "La diaspora Wenzhou en France et ses relations avec la Chine." Thesis, Poitiers, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017POIT5009/document.
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La diaspora chinoise a pris de l’ampleur depuis la deuxième moitié du XIXème siècle. En France, la migration de Chinois originaires de la région de Wenzhou, s’est intensifiée depuis les années 1980. Ce sous-groupe de la diaspora chinoise a dès lors rapidement développé ses activités économiques. L’objectif cette thèse consiste à étudier l’organisation économique, sociale et spatiale des migrants de Wenzhou en France, principalement dans la région parisienne, et d’analyser les rapports économiques et sociaux que ceux-ci entretiennent avec la Chine en général et avec leur région d’origine en particulier. L’hypothèse centrale de la thèse est que le « Modèle de Wenzhou » en Chine, tel qu’il est identifié et analysé par les universitaires chinois, et le développement de l’entrepreneuriat chinois issu de Wenzhou en France sont étroitement liés. Pour ce faire, nous interrogerons notamment l’idée d’une « importation » de ce modèle en France. Les résultats de cette thèse permettent de révéler l’existence d’une économie transnationale originale, reliant la France et la Chine, qui a été soutenue par la diaspora Wenzhou et a produit une forme de « transfert migratoire » dans chacun des deux pays. Plus largement, la thèse permet de montrer de quelle manière la diaspora chinoise en France a contribué au développement économique de la Chine et comment elle a pu bénéficier de la nouvelle politique de la Chine initiée au début des années 2000 pour se consoliderThe Chinese diaspora has been growing since the second half of the nineteenth century. In France, the Chinese immigration from the region of the Wenzhou has intensified since the 1980s. This sub-group of the Chinese diaspora has since rapidly expanded its economic activities. The objective of this thesis is to study the economic, social and spatial organization of Wenzhou migrants in France, manly in the Paris region, and to analyze the economic and social relations that they maintain with China in general and with their region of origin in particular. The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the economic “model of Wenzhou” area, as identified and analyzed by the Chinese scholars, and the development of Chinese entrepreneurship in France are closely linked in particular through "Import"of this model in France. The results of our thesis reveal the existence of an original transnational economy connecting France and China, that was supported by the Wenzhou diaspora and that produced a form of "migratory transfer" in each of the two countries. More broadly, the thesis helps to show how the Chinese diaspora in France contributed to the economic development of China, but also how it benefitted from measures included in China's new policy initiated in the early 2000s to consolidate itself
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Polyzos, Iris. "Parcours des migrants et mutations sociospatiales à Athènes : le cas des commerçants chinois à Metaxourgio." Thesis, Poitiers, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014POIT5008/document.
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La relation entre immigrations et espace urbain connaît actuellement de profondes recompositions dans le contexte athénien. Des nouvelles territorialités voient le jour, induites surtout par des vagues migratoires récemment arrivées. Le but de cette thèse est d'étudier comment l'immigration chinoise, tout en faisant partie de ces vagues migratoires, se différencie et trace des parcours économiques et sociospatiaux autres. Le principal quartier d'installation des ces migrants, situé dans la partie ouest du centre d'Athènes, est au coeur de notre recherche. La question centrale de notre thèse est, d'une part, d'identifier les caractéristiques du tissu social et urbain qui ont permit ce regroupement et, d'autre part, de voir quelles mutations découlent de la présence chinoise dans le quartier. La méthodologie adoptée fait appel à quatre outils principaux : entretiens semi-directifs avec des commerçants et habitants chinois et non chinois, enquête par questionnaire sur deux immeubles du terrain d'étude, relevés et observations du quartier en question, enfin, recueil et traitement des données encore non publiées. Ce travail a suggéré qu'un « quartier chinois », tourné sur l'activité du commerce de gros, est en effet apparu. À côté de sa forte dimension économique, il s'agit d'un lieu de référence pour la population étudiée. Nous montrerons que ce regroupement ethnique coexiste avec d'autres dynamiques qui se manifestent dans le même espace. Les migrants chinois contribuent aux réhabilitations atypiques que connaît leur quartier d'installation, tandis que leur contribution procède de l'imbrication de l'échelle globale et de l'échelle locale. Faisant partie de la diaspora chinoise, ils mobilisent des réseaux transnationaux dans le processus de leur installation. En même temps, le quartier d'installation se transforme aussi pour devenir un nouveau pôle au sein de la toile migratoire chinoise. Finalement, cette étude a montré la nécessité de changer de regard sur la présence des migrants dans l'espace urbain. Contrairement au discours qui associe les migrants au déclin urbain, nous mettons l'accent sur l'aspect positif de leur rôle en tant qu'acteurs du changement urbainThe relation between migration flows and urban space is experiencing significant recompositions in Athens. Recently arrived migration flows follow new territorialities in the city, thus reshaping its social and urban fabric. Aim of the thesis is to study the Chinese migration as part of those international flows and to further demonstrate the distinct sociospatial trajectories that the latter follow. The central neighborhood of their establishment, located in the west part of the city center, is at the core of our study. The principal question is, on the one hand, to identify the sociospatial characteristics of the neighborhood that allowed their establishment and, on the other hand, to analyze the visible changes of the area of establishment carried out by the Chinese presence. The research combines four methodological approaches: in depth interviews carried out with shopkeepers and inhabitants, both Chinese and non Chinese, survey by questionnaire in neighborhoods' apartment buildings, in situ observation and systematic mapping of the commercial activities and finally, gathering and processing of secondary data, such as population census and business registries. The thesis argues that Chinese migrants, mainly focused on wholesale commercial activities, formed a distinct “Chinese” area in Athens' city center. Next to its dominant economic dimension, the area also constitutes a meeting place for the majority of the Chinese migratory group, which proved to be highly heterogeneous in socioeconomic terms. The thesis further pointed out that this ethnic establishment coexists with the concomitant urban dynamics of the neighborhood. Further on, we showed that they do not only coexist, but they actively contribute to the atypical rehabilitation processes of Metaxourgio area. Their contribution is better understood as an outcome of the local / global scale intertwining. In fact, Chinese migrants, as integral part of a larger diaspora, mobilized transnational social networks in the process of their establishment. This process gave finally rise to a new "pole" of the Chinese diaspora in southern Europe. Following the study's findings, the thesis highlights the necessity of a theoretical shift towards the understanding of migrants' presence and role in the urban space. Contrary to the dominant, discriminating discourses that link migrants' presence to urban decline, this thesis, ultimately, manages to underline the positive effects of Chinese migrants their active role as agents of the urban change
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Liu, Lu. "The Chinese pipa solo tradition, from conservatory to concert hall and beyond." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20947.
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In this study I investigate the recent transformation of the Chinese pipa solo tradition, particularly since 1949, as it moved from the folk tradition to the conservatory. After introducing the instrument and reviewing its history including the ways it has been structurally and technologically modified over time, I trace specific pipa developments through the biography and work of nine outstanding pipa musicians: Liu Tianhua, Lin Shicheng, Liu Dehai and Zhang Qiang (Chapter 3); Shi Juan and Zhao Cong (Chapter 4); Gao Hong and Yang Jing (Chapter 5) and Wu Man (Chapter 6). Additionally, I examine the iconic repertoire item “Ambush on Ten Sides” (“Shimian maifu”, 十面埋伏) in terms of canonisation and standardisation processes, the ways it functions as a sign vehicle on behalf of Chinese culture and music locally and globally, and the musical creativity it has inspired. Throughout Chapters 4–6 in particular I examine the changes that have taken place in pipa transmission and repertoire expansion in relation to Chinese music’s modernisation, the post-1979 Chinese diaspora, and discourses of globalisation and the “Chinese self”. Overall, four key domains of transformation are addressed in the study: pipa teaching methods; the pipa canon; pipa performance techniques and conventions; and the cultural status of the instrument. As a result of the concerted efforts of these nine pipa experts (among many others), the pipa is now more widely known than at any previous point in history and has found its way into an unprecedented range of musical contexts locally, regionally and worldwide. The thesis is informed by my experience as a China conservatory-trained, Sydney based pipa professional. In it I interweave data gathered from ethnographic interviews with the pipa experts featured in the study, which I conducted face-to-face and online, with discographical and musicological analysis of performances and recordings.
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Xiao, Jun, and n/a. "Cultural identity and communication among the Chinese diaspora in Australia in the 1990s : a Canberra case study." University of Canberra. Professional Communication, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061110.173255.
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As a contribution to understanding the Chinese immigrants and their
community, this study seeks to explore the factors influencing the formation and
development of cultural identity among members of the Chinese diaspora in
Australia. These include Chinese community life, family and professional
networks, media use and its influences, and the changes that have taken place
over the past ten years.
Chinese communities in Australia are not homogeneous. Although they may all
call themselves Chinese, they differ among themselves according to dialect,
subdialect, clan and family, all of which are linked to their place of ancestral
origin in China, as well as by country of birth outside of China. The degree to
which these differences are considered important varies from individual to
individual, but a community, whether it is constituted for social or business
purposes, always comprises individuals who share one or more of these
secondary characteristics in addition to their collective cultural characteristics.
The study focuses on Canberra as a case study. First, it examines the
similarities and differences within the Chinese diaspora coming from different
geographical origins. It uses interviews and narrative analysis to examine the
nature of Chinese immigrants and to assess their social, political and cultural
context, with the aim to challenge the monolithic view that only one kind of
Chinese community exists. It investigates how cultural background and other
factors affect the formation and development of people's identity. In addition, as
a point of secondary comparison, this study also analyses the differences
between the Chinese diaspora in Canberra and Sydney. The aim here is to
assess how the different locations and different characteristics of these cities
communication networks affect migrants' adaptation to Australian society.
Special attention will be given to differences between Dalu ren (the mainland
Chinese), who came to Australia after the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989,
and the other diasporic Chinese groups in Australia, which include Taiwan ren
(Taiwanese), Xianggangren' (Honkongese), Malaixiya hua ren (Malaysian
Chinese), and Xinjiapo hua ren (Singaporean Chinese). Since mainland China
has had a different political system and the Communist Party replaced much
Chinese tradition, people from the mainland have kept the least Chinese
cultural traditions. Chinese from other regions try to keep the Chinese tradition
as it was. However, the culture in mainland China has already changed.
Therefore, the understanding of the Chinese tradition and culture among the
Chinese from different regions varies greatly.
This thesis explores the changing understanding within the members of the
diasporic community of cultural identity. It attempts to show the strong
influence of the notion of an original culture on the Chinese diaspora and how
these ideas influence the way that diasporic Chinese community members
interact within Australian society. It will investigate the changing
characteristics, both social and individual, of mainlanders and other groups of
Chinese immigrants in the 1990s, in the context of their professional, social and
family networks. It will examine areas such as media use, languages and
involvement with community development activities, and whether there are
significant differences in their acculturation according to their different gender
and places of origins.
1 Although Hong Kong has become part of China since 1997, there have, however, been
different political and social systems in Hong Kong and the mainland, so this study researches
Hong Kong in a separate category for the purpose of exploring differences.
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Hoon, Chang-Yau. "Reconceptualising ethnic Chinese identity in post-Suharto Indonesia." University of Western Australia. Asian Studies Discipline Group, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0065.
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[Truncated abstract] The May 1998 anti-Chinese riots brought to the fore the highly problematic position of the ethnic Chinese in the Indonesian nation. The ethnic Chinese were traumatised by the event, and experienced an identity crisis. They were confronted with the reality that many Indonesians still viewed and treated them as outsiders or foreigners, despite the fact that they had lived in Indonesia for many generations. During Suharto's New Order (1966-1998), the ethnic Chinese had been given the privilege to expand the nation's economy (and their own wealth), but, paradoxically, were marginalised and discriminated against in all social spheres: culture, language, politics, entrance to state-owned universities, public service and public employment. This intentional official discrimination against the Chinese continuously reproduced their
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Tam, Yee-mei Agnes, and 譚懿媚. "Preservation of home of Malaysian Chinese." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193563.
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The study of diaspora dictates a yearning to return home which finds its Chinese equivalent in the notion of louye-guigen ( 落葉歸根) - returning to the roots. However, reality is that diaspora comes to an end after settlement for two to three generations. We do see the prevailing trend of luodi-shenggen (落地生根) – the planting of permanent roots in the soils of different countries of Chinese overseas. In some Chinese communities, luodi-shenggen turns out to be a total assimilation while others developed a uniquely Chinese identity.
This dissertation seeks to examine how the Sinophone as ennuciative tactic to afford a sense of homeliness to the Malaysian Chinese – Mahua (馬華) who maintain a practice of Sinitic languages in their daily life for generations while they unmistakably identify themselves as Malaysian. Such identification situates them in an inbetweenness where they engage in constant dialog to engender new speech act.
Through the study of Chinese street names in George Town, Penang and the Sinophone cultural troupe Dongdiyin (動地吟), I argue that Sinitic languages afford the Malaysian Chinese a sense of home and that Sinitic languages are employed as a tactic in face of the grand narratives of their mother Chinese culture and the Malaysian national discourse, and to displace them.published_or_final_version
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Tay, Frances. "Making Malaysian Chinese : war memory, histories and identities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/making-malaysian-chinese-war-memory-histories-and-identities(abc19330-315a-4602-9680-5beb74173920).html.
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This thesis proposes a new perspective on Malaysian Chinese studies by exploring issues of identity formation refracted through the lens of contestations of war memory, communal history and state-sponsored national history. In multiethnic Malaysia, despite persistent nation-building programs towards inculcating a shared Malaysian national identity, the question as to whether the Chinese are foremost Chinese or Malaysian remains at the heart of Malaysian socio-political debates. Existing scholarship on the Malaysian Chinese is often framed within post-independent development discourses, inevitably juxtaposing the Chinese minority condition against Malay political and cultural supremacy. Similarly, explorations of war memory and history echo familiar Malay-Chinese, dominant-marginalised or national-communal binary tropes. This thesis reveals that prevailing contestations of memory and history are, at their core, struggles for cultural inclusion and belonging. It further maps the overlapping intersections between individual (personal/familial), communal and official histories in the shaping of Malaysian Chinese identities. In tracing the historical trajectory of this community from migrants to its current status as ‘not-quite-citizens,’ the thesis references a longue durée perspective to expose the motif of Otherness embedded within Chinese experience. The distinctiveness of the Japanese occupation of British Malaya between 1941-1945 is prioritised as a historical watershed which compounded the Chinese as a distinct and separate Other. This historical period has also perpetuated simplifying myths of Malay collaboration and Chinese victimhood; these continue to cast their shadows over interethnic relations and influence Chinese representations of self within Malaysian society. In the interstices between Malay-centric national history and marginalised Chinese war memory lie war memory silences. These silences reveal that obfuscation of Malaysia’s wartime past is not only the purview of the state; Chinese complicity is evident in memory-work which selectively (mis)remembers, rejects and rehabilitates war memory. In excavating these silences, the hitherto unexplored issue of intergenerational memory transmission is addressed to discern how reverberations of the wartime past may colour Chinese self-image in the present. The thesis further demonstrates that the marginalisation of Chinese war memory from official historiography complicates the ongoing project of reconciling the Malaysian Chinese to a Malay-dominated nationalist dogma.
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Ling, Hock Shen. "Negotiating Malaysian Chinese Ethnic and National Identity Across Borders." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1226957088.
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Xu, Yang. "Les migrants chinois en Afrique : Etudes des relations et interactions avec le Nigéria." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0463.
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L’influence montante de la Chine en Afrique est souvent analysée comme la simple exprsssion d’unevolonté étatique chinoise. Le rôle des migrants et diasporas contribue pourtant de manière primordialeau dynamisme des échanges. C’est notamment le cas des Chinois au Nigér ia. Entre la Chine et leNigéria, les relations inter-étatiques sont peu significatives, contrairement aux échanges initiés par laprésence de migrants et entrepreneurs chinois. Implantées solidement dans les tissus économiques duNigéria, les communautés chinoises créent une dynamique forte qui associe affaires et politique. Lathèse met en lumière et analyse à partir d’observations participantes et d’entretiens (formels etinformels) , le rôle d’impulsion joué par une « diaspora économique » largement autonome par rapportaux relations officielles. Elle décrypte les stratégies du quotidien et l'importance de ces individusordinaires et leurs actions, entretenus essentiellement par les réseaux de toute nature, dans l’animationdes relations sino-nigérianesThe rising influence of China in Africa is often considered as the mere expression of the will theChinese state. The role of migrants and Diasporas contributes decisively to the dynamism of theseinteractions. This is notably the case of the Chinese in Nigeria. Between China and Nigeria, inter-staterelations carry little significance, unlike the interactions associated with the presence of Chinesemigrants and entrepreneurs. The Chinese communities are solidly anchored in the Nigerian economicissue, and they create a momentum that combines business with politics. The thesis highlights anddiscusses, through observer-participant observations and interviews (both formally and informallyconducted) the impulse given by an 'economic Diaspora' that remains largely autonomous vis a visofficial relations. We analyze daily strategies and contrast these with official relations. In doing so, thethesis decrypts the daily strategies and the importance of ordinary individuals and their networks in thedevelopment of a diversity of networks that contribute, in their own way, to deepen Sino-Nigerianinteractions
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Lejdström, Corinne. "SELF-CENSORSHIP MADE IN SWEDEN : En kvalitativ studie om den kinesiska diasporans utövning av självcensur på sociala medier mot bakgrunden av upplevd övervakning." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-48729.
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The surveillance in China is a topic which has been the subject of extensive scientific studies. First and foremost, the digital surveillance of the population of China has been explained by a number of scholars over the years. Nevertheless, the monitoring of the Chinese diaspora is a research area that has been explained to a limited extent and where the studies of monitoring of the Chinese diaspora in Sweden are not to be found in research for the present study. The purpose of the study is thus to investigate past and present citizens’ relationship to the internet and social media linked to surveillance with the aim of clarifying how the feeling of being monitored contributes to the individual’s application of self-censorship. The method of collecting the empiricism has included six different interviews. The result showed that the Chinese diasporas feeling of being monitored contributes in some cases to self-censorship on social media. The monitoring operator consists partly of state of China, but also the Chinese diasporas community on social media is perceives as a monitoring actor. The conclusions of the study show that the Chinese diaspora largely reflects on the posts before publishing. Self- censorship was also practiced with various reasons and extent on Western and Chinese social media. Horizontal surveillance was fund on both Western and Chinese social media, while state surveillance instead perceived on western social media. A further form of self-censorship emerged where state surveillance as well as surveillance from ideological groups active in the country resulted in deletion of posts upon entry to another country and created the concept of travel censorship.
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au, a. meerwald@yahoo com, and Agnes May Lin Meerwald. "Chineseness at the crossroads : negotiations of Chineseness and the politics of liminality in diasporic Chinese women's lives in Australia." Murdoch University, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080116.113947.
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Chineseness at the crossroads examines how Chineseness is negotiated by diasporic Chinese women in Australia. I question the essentialist notions of Chineseness by deploying Homi Bhabha's theory of liminality. This concept of being neither here nor there helped me examine the women's ambiguous experiences of acceptance and rejection, within and across marginal and dominant Australian circles. My position disrupts the binaric frames that divide the old from the new, and the eastern from the western practices for cultural appropriation. It recognises instead the past and the present in the creation of new but familiar versions of Chineseness.
I argue that essentialist norms are commuilicated through cultural semantics to inform how Chineseness is rehearsed. I assert that liminality exposes the power structures that inform these cultural semantics by disrupting the naturalised norms. I posit that the diasporic women's awareness of these interdependent processes enables them to question their practices and ideologies.
I used an autoethnographic technique to collapse the divide between the researcher and the researched. It created a liminal space between the researcher and the researched. This subverted norms of the researcher as the archaeologist of knowledge by enabling the other women's narratives to tell their stories alongside mine. This methodological frame also serves as a prism to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, family, relationships, language, education, class, age, and religion with Chineseness in the lives of the 39 Malaysian and Singaporean women interviewed.
My results indicate that Chineseness is precarious and indeterminate, and specific to the particular moments of articulation at the crossroads of geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. The versions of Chineseness rehearsed are complexly influenced by the various cultural semantics that impact on the women's negotiations of who they are as diasporic Chinese women in Australia. I conclude with a discussion of how these results challenge current curriculum and pedagogical practices in English classrooms. I argue that a re-examination of these practices will contribute to a more inclusive Australia.
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Lin, Yuexin Rachel. "Among ghosts and tigers : the Chinese in the Russian Far East, 1917-1920." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6b8153ea-0f39-43cd-9c76-416f86c85d02.
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This thesis examines the experiences of the overseas Chinese in the Russian Far East during the revolutionary and Civil War period from 1917 to 1920, as well as their responses to the upheaval. Bucking the current trend towards transcultural history, the thesis argues that Chinese identity and nationalist language were of prime importance to this community. By concentrating on Chinese-language sources, the thesis re-privileges the community's internal discourses and highlights the prevalence of nationalist rhetoric across the Sino-Russian border. It also sites the Chinese community's use of nationalist language within the context of the global diaspora, for which questions of national weakness and revival were also pressing. Going further, the thesis postulates the presence of "Chinese nationalism with Russian characteristics", in which the issues surrounding Chinese nationalism as a whole were heightened. It shows that the rhetoric of 'national humiliation' and victimhood were particularly immediate to the community in the Russian Far East, since it was located at one of the epicentres of imperial contestation. In practice, this led to a modus vivendi with the Reds and a decisive turn against the Whites. Furthermore, the chaos of the revolutions and Civil War imbued this nationalism with an opportunistic quality. The collapse of Russian state power became the 'opportunity of a thousand years' for China to redress past wrongs. This allowed the overseas community to work closely with local authorities and the Beijing government to achieve shared goals. New civil society organisations with community-wide aims were formed. Beijing extended its diplomatic reach in the form of new Far Eastern consulates. Finally, common nationalist rhetoric underpinned China's successful attempt to re-establish its civilian and military presence on the Amur River. "Chinese nationalism with Russian characteristics" could be effectively harnessed to secure multi-level and cross-border cooperation.
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Romolacci, Justine. "Dynamiques urbaines et économiques des Chinois originaires de Wenzhou en Europe : le cas des communautés de Prato et de Marseille." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020AIXM0041.
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Les Chinois originaires de Wenzhou forment une diaspora entrepreneuriale très active. Les entrepreneurs wenzhou en Europe ont prospéré dans un secteur jusqu’alors inédit au sein de la diaspora chinoise : la vente en gros de produits importés de Chine. Grâce à leurs entreprises familiales, qui fournissent une main-d’œuvre bon marché et à l’établissement d’un réseau commercial, dont le noyau se situe en Chine, les commerçants wenzhou sont devenus particulièrement compétitifs et ont réussi à avoir le monopole dans ce secteur. Cette thèse est une étude ethno-économique comparative des dynamiques urbaines et économiques des Wenzhou de Marseille et de Prato (Italie). L’objectif de ce travail est, d’une part, d’appréhender l’établissement de la communauté wenzhou en milieu urbain avec, d’un côté, à Marseille, un groupe relativement peu nombreux dont l’installation est récente et dont l’impact économique à l’échelle de la ville reste modeste et, d’un autre côté, à Prato, une communauté numériquement conséquente dont la présence dans la ville est très importante et qui détient économiquement un réel pouvoir. L’implantation dans le tissu urbain des Chinois de Wenzhou n’a pas vocation à constituer un lieu touristique comme certains Chinatowns en Europe, et en Amérique du Nord, en particulier, mais elle est articulée autour de leur activité commerciale. D’autre part, il s’agira de montrer que le développement et la réussite économique de ces communautés sont essentiellement fondés sur un réseau économique transnational et international allant de l’approvisionnement à la distribution de produits importés de ChineThe Chinese from Wenzhou are, especially in France and Italy, a very active entrepreneurial diaspora. With China’s economic development and its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, Wenzhou entrepreneurs in Europe prospered in a business segment previously unheard of in the Chinese diaspora: wholesale of products imported from China. Thanks to their family businesses, which provide a cheap labor force and the establishment of a transnational and international trade network, whose core is located in China, entrepreneurs from Wenzhou have become very competitive and have managed to have the monopoly in this sector.This thesis is a comparative socio-economic study of the urban and economic dynamics of the Chinese from Wenzhou in Marseille and Prato (Italy). The main purpose of this research work is, on the one hand, to apprehend the establishment of the Wenzhou community in urban areas with, on one side in Marseilles, a relatively small group whose installation is recent and whose economic impact in the city remains modest, and Prato, on the other hand, with a numerically important community with a large presence in the city and a real economic power. The settlement in the urban area of the Chinese of Wenzhou is not intended to constitute a tourist attraction like some Chinatowns in Europe, and especially in North America, but is articulated around their economic activity. In addition, it will be necessary to show that the development and the economic success of these communities are essentially based on a transnational and international economic network going from the supply to the distribution of products imported from China
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Tsang, Martin. "Con la Mocha al Cuello: The Emergence and Negotiation of Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1247.
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Between 1847 and 1874 approximately 142,000 Chinese indentured laborers, commonly known as coolies, migrated to Cuba to work primarily on sugar plantations following the demise of African slavery. Comprised of 99.97% males and contracted to work for eight years or more, many of those coolies that survived the harsh conditions in Cuba formed consensual unions with freed and enslaved women of color. These intimate connections between Chinese indentures and Cubans of African descent developed not only because they shared the same living and working spaces, but also because they occupied similar sociocultural, political, and economic spheres in colonial society.
This ethnography investigates the rise of a discernible Afro-Chinese religiosity that emerged from the coming together of these two diasporic groups. The Lukumi religion, often described as being a syncretism between African and European elements, contains impressive articulations of Chinese and Afro-Chinese influences, particularly in the realm of material culture. On the basis of qualitative research that I conducted among Chinese and Afro-Chinese Lukumi practitioners in Cuba, this dissertation documents the development of syncretism and discursive religious practice between African and Chinese diasporas. I conceptualize a framework of interdiasporic cross-fertilization and, in so doing, disassemble Cuba’s racial and religious categories, which support a notion of “Cubanidad” that renders Chinese subjectivity invisible. I argue that Afro-Chinese religiosity became a space for a positive association that I call “Sinalidad”. I also argue that this religiosity has been elaborated upon largely because of transformations in Cuba’s social and economic landscape that began during Cuba’s Special Period. Thus, the dissertation uses religious practice as a lens through which I shed light upon another dimension of identity making, transnationalism and the political economy of tourism on the island.
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Manfrinati, Priscila D\'Almeida. "Vozes da diáspora: um estudo das memórias, identidades e negociações de refugiados macaenses entre China e Brasil (1950-1977)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8161/tde-26042018-131425/.
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A migração coletiva de membros da comunidade portuguesa de Macau para o Brasil, parte da chamada Segunda Diáspora Macaense, é elaborada nesta pesquisa de acordo com as proposições de Sayad sobre a dupla condição de emigrante-imigrante do sujeito migratório. Assim, as condições que engendraram o movimento de saída da China são analisadas de modo a construir escopo interpretativo para a qualificação de tais membros como refugiados e contextualizar sua recepção e integração na sociedade brasileira entre as décadas de 1950 e 1970. Tal trajetória é estudada a partir de depoimentos que partem de elaborações individuais e coletivas sobre a experiência colonial, a assunção identitária e aspectos relativos ao deslocamento, à condição de imigrante e à integração no Brasil. O referencial teórico de análise de tais depoimentos e do contexto sócio político que emergem encontra-se nos Estudos Culturais, mais precisamente em obras da teoria pós-colonial. Apesar de não tratarem especificamente do caso chinês, as semelhanças na atuação da empresa colonialista e seus efeitos possibilitou aproximações. Isso pois os territórios colonizados, em suas experiências originais, são marcados por relações de poder, violências de toda ordem e sínteses multiculturais, de onde emergem sujeitos cindidos e hifenizados. Tal conformação societária, marcada por ambiguidades e distanciamentos, é pensada, então, em sua interface com o controverso momento político de descolonização já em meados do século XX. Particularmente em se tratando da China, o avanço do movimento revolucionário sob a liderança de Mao Tsé Tung marcou uma ruptura com o imperialismo, abrindo margem para a construção de um discurso nacional e de uma identidade chinesa em que as comunidades híbridas, consideradas estrangeiras, não eram contempladas. A ascensão do nacionalismo defensivo teve função precisa de subversão da ordem colonial e, entre outros fatores, implicou direta e indiretamente na exclusão de minorias. Considerada indesejável no cálculo do Estado em formação, a comunidade portuguesa passa a sair da China em processo diaspórico, sob a condição de refugiada. Os macaenses que vivem no Rio de Janeiro constituem parte significativa da Segunda Diáspora Macaense e são considerados aqui em seus discursos enunciativos, suas experiências nos entrelugares e estratégias de sobrevivência, tais como as negociações identitárias e práticas associativistas.The collective migration of members of the Portuguese community from Macao to Brazil, part of the so-called Second Macanese Diaspora, is elaborated in this research according to Sayad\'s proposals on the migrant-immigrant dual status of migrattion subject. Thus, the conditions that engendered the outgoing movement of China are analyzed in order to construct an interpretive scope for the qualification of such members as refugees and to contextualize their reception and integration in brazilian society between the 1950s and 1970s. Such trajectory is studied from individual and collective experiences, registered in testimonies, about the colonial way of life, identity assumption at this contexto and issues on displacement, immigrant status and non-Brazilian integration. The theoretical framework of analysis of such testimonies and the socio-political context that they emerge is found in Cultural Studies, most precisely in works developed on postcolonial theory. Although they did not deal specifically with the Chinese case, the similarities on how companies updated the colonialist enterprise and its effects provided approximations. That happens because colonized territories, in their original experiences, are marked by relations of power, violence of all orders and multicultural syntheses, from which split and hyphenated subjects emerge. This societal conformation, marked by ambiguities and distances, is then thought through an interface with the controversial political moment of decolonization occured in the middle of the twentieth century. Particularly regarding to China, the advance of the revolutionary movement under Mao Tse Tung\'s leadership marked a break with imperialism, opening the way for a construction of a national discourse and a Chinese identity in which, as foreign were not contemplated. The rise of defensive nationalism had a precise function of subversion of the colonial order and, among other factors, directly and indirectly implied the exclusion of minorities. Considered undesirable in the calculation of the State in formation, a Portuguese community starts to leave China in diasporic process, under the condition of refugee. The Macanese who live in Rio de Janeiro constitute a significant part of the Second Macanese Diaspora and they are considered here in their enunciative speeches, their experiences in the interludes and strategies of survival, such as the identity negotiations and associative practices.
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Jing, Zhe. "Content and frames of ©WeChat and Chinese state media - a critical literacy reflection of the narratives during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2023. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2700.
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Governments back disruptive politics on the Internet platforms to influence people. During the global health crisis, because of the popularity and demographic penetration, ©WeChat is said to be one of these platforms. The influential dynamics, the circulated contents relevant to diasporic audiences and the app’s global users are yet to be contextually understood through the educational lens of critical literacy. This study is underpinned by a critical literacy reflective framework which synthesises components from several critical literacy practices: content and frame analysis, critical pedagogies, and specific literacy domain practices to provide guideline for the investigation. The findings demonstrate how state affiliated media (SAM) utilised a global public health crisis to serve the Chinese government’s ideological agenda, and how some of the narratives had entered the ©WeChat sphere which expedited its outreach among the diasporic subjects while the critical literacy struggles are at the stake of their identificatory pursuit in the host country. The author’s reflection of the situation explores required intervention to counter such ideological influence and to contextualise the challenges co-confronted by the institutions and the diasporic community. It concludes that new pedagogical adjustments are needed to respond to the critical democratic and literacy demands in a post COVID-19 world.
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Lee, Ming-yen. "An Analysis of the Three Modern Chinese Orchestras in the Context of Cultural Interaction Across Greater China." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1397886249.
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Xiao, Yao. "Chinese pride? searching between gendered diasporas and multicultural states." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62523.
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This research of pride is necessarily from but not limited to my own personal searching, as a Cantonese/Chinese migrant across (Northern Guangdong) mountains, (Pearl River) delta, and (East Pacific) waterfronts. To explore what (Chinese) pride means in context, who needs it, and how it relates to the learning of empowerment, privilege, and diversity, I deploy a multi-biographical method to explore the mixed productions and expressions of pride. These multi-biographical sources include: audio life history interviews with thirteen community activists in the East Pacific port of Greater Vancouver and specifically in Richmond where significant streams of Chinese diasporas locate, five autobiographical accounts in a national Chinese-Canadian online project, and audio-video clips of two Chinese-Canadian stories in a transnational Chinese television/online program. Searching and researching these life stories, I find (Chinese) pride articulable on two journeys. A journey of diaspora emphasizes the flux of pride, expressible in a trio of gendered stories from women’s heritage to both women and men in migration and further to queer and nonqueer immigrant youth collaboration. A journey of state emphasizes the stability of pride, expressible in a trio of multicultural stories from nation-state citizenship to local citizenship and further to a global state of mind. While this mix of life journey/storytelling speaks in its own way towards more soul-searching and politically-sensitive projects of learning, my conclusion is more modestly about bringing four small elements to cultural studies of education: namely, extramural education as collaborative praxis, aspirational learning in political literacy, critical education with place-based and mobile cultures, and a reflexive take on why (and in what ways) cultural studies of education matters to me. With all these tissues of pride alive, I hope primarily and modestly to create openings in what could be done between/with you and me.Education, Faculty of
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Wong, Hee Kam Édith. "La diaspora chinoise aux Mascareignes : le cas de la Réunion." Paris, EHESS, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994EHES0008.
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Le but de cette thèse est l'étude de l'évolution globale de la minorité chinoise aux Mascareignes, et plus particulièrement à la Réunion. Elle comprend une introduction et trois grandes parties structurées selon un ordre chronologique. L'introduction dresse un bilan des travaux antérieurs, et présente la problématique personnelle, qui cherche à analyser comment s'est faite l'intégration d'une minorité à la societé d'une colonie française créolophone, dont le statut est devenu celui d'un département à partir de 1946. La première partie évoque les premières introductions de Chinois dans l'archipel, des origines jusqu'au milieu du XIXème siècle, en particulier à partir de 1844 où démarre le premier engagisme. La deuxième partie concerne la formation et la structuration d'une communauté entre 1862 et 1946, elle suit la dissémination des Chinois à travers l'île. L'accent est mis sur leurs choix professionnels, en particulier dans le secteur commercial, au sein de la societé de plantation : les Chinois n'y ont d'autre choix que de se replier sur leur vie communautaire axée autour des associations, des temples, des réseaux interinsulaires, et des formes d'expressions culturelles traditionnelles, en particulier par leurs écoles. La troisième partie porte sur la période allant de 1946 à nos jours, et montre comment la départementalisation a influé sur l'évolution de cette minorité en accélérant son processus d'intégration. Les mutations économiques ont poussé les Chinois à des stratégies de réajustement, d'où de profondes répercussions sur leur vie socio-politique, culturelle et religieuse. La conclusion fait une évaluation de leur parcours et trace des perspectives d'avenir. (Doc-thèses)The aim of this thesis is the study of the Chinese minority in the Mascarenes, and more particularly in Reunion Island. It consists of an introduction and three main parts following chronological order. The introduction and three main parts following chronological order. The introduction gives a summary of previous studies in the matter, and presents an attempt to analyze the settling-down of a minority into a French creolophone colony, which would become a French overseas department en 1946. The first part is concerned with the period when the Chinese were first introduced in the island until the middle of the XIXth century, more precisely up to 1844 when indenture started. The second part deals with the formation and the organisation of the Chinese community between 1862 and 1946: the emphasis is put on the choices of professions, mainly in commerce winthin that society of plantation. The Chinese had no other choice but turn in on themselves, on their community life centrered around their associations and their intersular networks. The third part covers the period from 1946 until nowadays. It shows how greatly the status of the department influenced the evolution of the Chinese community by accelerating the integration process. The economic changes incited the Chinese to find new setting-in strategies, which deeply affected their social, political, religious and cultural life. The conclusion presents the contribution of the Chinese to Reunion Island history and proposes some prospects for the future
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Wong, Hee Kam Édith. "La diaspora chinoise aux Mascareignes : le cas de la Réunion /." Paris ; Montréal : Éd. l'Harmattan, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35852041j.
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Huang, Yi. "Borderland without Borders: Chinese Diasporic Women Writers in the Americas." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/559.
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This project seeks to expand Asian American studies and Asian North American studies to the Caribbean/South America by examining works of SKY Lee, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jan Shinebourne. I argue that these writers represent Chinese diasporic experiences by reconstructing Chinese immigration history to the Americas. Although different racial constitutions and different cultural and historical specificities occasion the racializations of the Chinese in these regions, the colonial and neocolonial powers deploy similar mechanism for racializations and cultural politics that favors the dominant. These writers’ evocation of the nomadic female subjectivity that traverses the multiple and shifting borderlands and contact zones in their narratives offers a comparative perspective on the construction of ethnic female identity across the Americas and leads to a critique of the function of (neo)colonial power in identity and social formation in the Americas. Engaging in a hemispheric study of the Chinese immigration to the Americas, this project also contributes to recent scholarship on diasporic studies as it challenges the conventional categorization of global diasporas, specifically Chinese diaspora as diaspora of trade, and destabilizes the homeland/hostland binary with an account of the secondary migrations within the Americas. Drawing on recent scholarship on diasporic, hemispheric and women’s studies, and global Asian immigration, the Introduction outlines the methodology of the project. Chapter one examines Lee’s "Disappearing Moon Café," arguing that in this family saga Lee repoliticizes the marginalization of the Chinese by exploring the relationship between Chinese and American Indians against the broad racial relationships in Canada. Chapter two reexamines autobiography as a genre and contends that Kingston documents anti-Chinese U.S. immigration history in "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men" by narrating her family genealogy, which mirrors the collective history of Chinese immigration to the Americas. Chapter three focuses on Shinebourne’s representations of creolized Chinese experiences in "The Last English Plantation" and "Timepiece" against the background of Afro- and Indo-Guyanese conflicts in colonial Guyana. While Lee and Kingston foster transpacific dialogues, Shinebourne’s works depict the intersecting experiences of Chinese, East Indian and African diasporas. Her works foreground the historical and political connection of Asian indentureship with African slavery as an alternative labor source for the colonial economy in the Caribbean and Latin America and hence make evident the extension of European Atlantic system to the Pacific
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Tang, Fang. "Imagining home : literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52130/.
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This thesis explores the use of literary fantasy in the construction of identity and ‘home’ in contemporary diasporic Chinese women’s literature. I argues that the use of fantasy acts as a way of undermining the power of patriarchal values and unsettling fixed notions of home. In each of these four texts by Chinese diasporic women author, the authors or their protagonists describe different explorations of the search for home: a space where they can articulate their voices and desires. The notion of home for these diasporic Chinese women is much more complex than a simple feeling of nostalgia in response to a state of displacement and unhomeliness. The idea of home relates to complicated struggles to gain a sense of belonging, as experienced by marginalized subjects constructing their diasporic identities — which can best be understood as unstable, shifting, and shaped by historical conditions and power relations. Fantasy is seen as a literary mode in the corpus of this study, as described in Rosemary Jackson’s Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion (1981). Literary fantasy offers a way to rework ancient myths, fairytales, ghost stories and legends; it also subverts conventional narrative representation, and challenges the restricting powers of patriarchy and other dominant ideologies. Through a critical reading of four texts written by diasporic Chinese women, namely, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976); Adeline Yen Mah’s Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (1997); Ying Chen’s Ingratitude (1995) and Larissa Lai’s When Fox is a Thousand (1995), this thesis aims to offer critical insights into how these works re-imagine a ‘home’ through literary fantasy which leads beyond the nationalist and Orientalist stereotypes; and how essentialist conceptions of diasporic culture are challenged by global geopolitics and cultural interactions.