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Tseng, Winston. Immigrant community services in Chinese and Vietnamese enclaves. New York: LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2007.
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God in Chinatown: Religion and survival in New York's evolving immigrant community. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
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Fitzgerald, John, and Hon-ming Yip, eds. Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528264.001.0001.
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Charity is common to diaspora communities the world over, from Armenian diaspora networks to Zimbabwean ones, but the forms charitable activity takes vary across communities and sites of settlement. What was distinctive about Chinese diaspora charity? This volume explores the history of charity among overseas Chinese during the century from 1850 to 1949 with a particular focus on the Cantonese "Gold Rush" communities of the Pacific rim, a loosely integrated network of émigrés from Cantonese-speaking counties in Guangdong Province, centering on colonial Hong Kong where people lived, worked and moved among English-speaking settler societies of North America and Oceania. The Cantonese Pacific was distinguished from fabled Nanyang communities of Southeast Asia in a number of ways and the forms their charity assumed were equally distinctive. In addition to traditional functions, charity served as a medium of cross-cultural negotiation with dominant Anglo-settler societies of the Pacific. Community leaders worked through civic associations to pioneer new models of public charity to demand recognition of Chinese immigrants as equal citizens in their host societies. Their charitable innovations were shaped by their host societies in turn, exemplified by women's role in charitable activities from the early decades of the 20th century. By focusing on charitable practices in the Cantonese diaspora over a century of trans-Pacific migration, this collection sheds new light on the history of charity in the Chinese diaspora, including institutional innovations not apparent within China itself, and on the place of the Chinese diaspora in the wider history of charity and philanthropy.
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Immigrant Community Services in Chinese and Vietnamese Enclaves (New Americans). LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2006.
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Guest, Kenneth J. God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community. New York University Press, 2003.
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Guest, Kenneth. God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity). NYU Press, 2003.
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Guest, Kenneth. God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York's Evolving Immigrant Community (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity). NYU Press, 2003.
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Griffith, Sarah. Ethnicity, solidarity, and tradition: A study of the dynamics and complexities of the Chinese immigrant community in John Day, Oregon, 1860-1906. 2000.
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Ng, Wing Chung. Theater and the Immigrant Public. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039119.003.0009.
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This chapter delineates the history of Chinatown theater as a public space for social interaction and community building in migrant societies. With Chinese migrants living under highly circumscribed conditions without much access to resources and amenities in mainstream society, the theater acquired extra significance within the enclave. Especially noteworthy is the active involvement of traditional organizations in promoting Cantonese opera and cultivating patronage with the touring companies and itinerant actors. On the one hand, the close-knit personal and social networks, and the group affiliations and loyalties associated with these organizations, were critical ingredients for the success of the theater business. On the other hand, the theater personnel and the spectacle of the stage became available to aid the organizations and the leaders in furthering their agendas by gaining visibility and public support. On the overseas stage, the enthusiastic reception afforded to actresses unleashed interesting dynamics of gender in an overwhelmingly male population. Aside from an entertainment venue enjoyed by many, the immigrant theater was acted upon by those concerned as an important site for the negotiation and inscription of power relations, normative behaviors, and community politics in exclusion-era Chinatown.
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Leng, Jennifer, Florence Lui, Angela Chen, Xiaoxiao Huang, William Breitbart, and Francesca Gany. Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Chinese Cancer Patients. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199837229.003.0010.
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The Chinese immigrant community faces multiple barriers to quality cancer care and cancer survivorship. The clinical effectiveness of meaning-centered psychotherapy (MCP) has not been studied in racial and ethnic minority populations for whom the concept of “meaning” may likely differ from that of Westernized White populations. This chapter describes a community needs study to inform the cultural adaptation of MCP for Chinese patients with advanced cancer in accordance with Bernal et al.’s ecological validity model and the cultural adaptation process model of Domenech-Rodriquez and Weiling. It also describes key strengths and suggested areas of focus in adapting MCP for Chinese immigrant patients.
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Bohr, Yvonne, Cindy H. Liu, Stephen H. Chen, and Leslie K. Wang. Satellite Babies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190265076.003.0015.
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Every year, in North American immigrant communities, thousands of infants experience separations from their parents when left or sent to live with extended family overseas. The practice of transnational, temporary boarding is widespread and poorly understood. This practice has been documented in North American Chinese, South Asian, Caribbean, and Filipino communities. This custom has raised concerns among child developmentalists and clinicians about potentially harmful consequences to children and parents. However, such separations may be misunderstood and prone to unnecessary stigma based on a lack of cultural appreciation. This chapter examines motives for and repercussions of separating parents and infants for extensive periods of time. The authors contextualize their analysis within a framework of stress management during the process of settlement and acculturation and consider the protective benefits of cultural values and practices in addition to risks. They use the Chinese immigrant community as an exemplar for the proposed framework.
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Cranford, Cynthia J. Home Care Fault Lines. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749254.001.0001.
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This revealing look at home care illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension. As the book shows, workers can experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies, which shapes their pursuit of security. The book analyzes the tensions, alliances, and compromises between security for workers and flexibility for elderly and disabled people, and argues that workers and recipients negotiate flexibility and security within intersecting inequalities in varying ways depending on multiple interacting dynamics. What comes through from the book's analysis is the need for deeply democratic alliances across multiple axes of inequality. To support both flexible care and secure work, the book argues for an intimate community unionism that advocates for universal state funding, designs culturally sensitive labor market intermediaries run by workers and recipients to help people find jobs or workers, and addresses everyday tensions in home workplaces.
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Chin, Margaret M. Changing Expectations. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037573.003.0007.
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This chapter examines the evolving Chinese ethnic economy and the changing job market in New York City, as well as the strategies employed by Chinese immigrant women to find and keep jobs after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It begins with a discussion of New York's Chinatown community to illustrate how ethnic enclaves and ethnic labor markets become mobility traps, where workers are exploited on a daily basis. It then presents data from two sets of interviews with thirty women and ten men residing in Chinatown during periods of economic downturn. The first phase of interviewing was conducted during the summer of 2002, while the second phase took place during the winter of 2008–2009. All of the women and three of the men had previously worked in the garment industry. The findings show that, unlike many New York City neighborhoods and economic sectors, the Chinatown enclave never recovered from the post–9/11 economic recession. The chapter also considers the ongoing role of community-based organizations in providing programs that support new workers.
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Highley, Christopher. Blackfriars in Early Modern London. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846976.001.0001.
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Blackfriars: Playhouse, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for its playhouses and its godly preachers. As the former site of one of London’s great religious houses, the post-Reformation Blackfriars was a Liberty free from mayoral control. The legal exemptions and privileges it conferred on its residents helped attract an unusual mix of groups and activities. Zealous preachers and puritan parishioners mingled with playhouse workers and playgoers, as well as a sizable community of immigrant “strangers.” The book focuses on local playhouse-church relations and asks how a theatrical culture was able to flourish in a parish dominated the preachers Stephen Egerton and William Gouge. Physically, the church of St. Anne’s and the playhouse were virtually next-door, but ideologically they seemed poles apart. Yet despite the occasional efforts of some residents to close the playhouse, godly religion and commercial playing managed to coexist. In explanation, the book examines the conflicting economic and ideological priorities of residents and the overriding desire to promote order and neighborliness. More provocatively, I argue that the Blackfriars pulpit and stage could be mutually reinforcing sites of performance. Preachers as well as playwrights exploited the Liberty’s vexed relations with authority to air satirical and subversive views of the established church and state. By examining Blackfriars sermons and plays side by side, the book reveals a synergy between two institutions usually considered implacable enemies.
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Ong, Soon Keong. Coming Home to a Foreign Country. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501756184.001.0001.
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This book explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China–Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. The book addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. It shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, the book explores the multilayered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia. It investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China–Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumulation and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their continual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese migrants, the book argues, the idea of “home” was something consciously constructed. The book complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s.
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Teoh, Karen M. Schooling Diaspora. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495619.001.0001.
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Schooling Diaspora relates the previously untold story of female education and the overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, traversing more than a century of British imperialism, Chinese migration, and Southeast Asian nationalism. This book explores the pioneering English- and Chinese-language girls’ schools in which these women studied and worked, drawing from school records, missionary annals, colonial reports, periodicals, and oral interviews. The history of educated overseas Chinese girls and women reveals the surprising reach of transnational female affiliations and activities in an age and a community that most accounts have cast as male dominated. These women created and joined networks in schools, workplaces, associations, and politics. They influenced notions of labor and social relations in Asian and European societies. They were at the center of political debates over language and ethnicity and were vital actors in struggles over twentieth-century national belonging. Their education empowered them to defy certain sociocultural conventions in ways that school founders and political authorities did not anticipate. At the same time, they contended with an elite male discourse that perpetuated patriarchal views of gender, culture, and nation. Even as their schooling propelled them into a cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic public space, Chinese girls and women in diaspora often had to take sides as Malayan and Singaporean society became polarized—sometimes falsely—into mutually exclusive groups of British loyalists, pro-China nationalists, and Southeast Asian citizens. They negotiated these constraints to build unique identities, ultimately contributing to the development of a new figure: the educated transnational Chinese woman.