Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora
Title | Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Melody Yunzi Li |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2022-09-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 303110157X |
In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not to mention the public and private spheres, in diaspora literature and film raise further questions about mapping and spatial representation and the affective and geographical significance of the push-and-pull movement in diasporic communities. The unique experience is represented differently by different authors across texts and media. In an age of globalization, in “the Chinese Century,” the spatial representation and cultural experiences of mobility, displacement, settlement, and hybridity become all the more urgent. The essays in this volume respond to this urgency, and they help to frame the study of Chinese diaspora and culture today.
Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora
Title | Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Melody Yunzi Li |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
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ISBN | 9783031101588 |
In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their "homelands" in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not to mention the public and private spheres, in diaspora literature and film raise further questions about mapping and spatial representation and the affective and geographical significance of the push-and-pull movement in diasporic communities. The unique experience is represented differently by different authors across texts and media. In an age of globalization, in "the Chinese Century," the spatial representation and cultural experiences of mobility, displacement, settlement, and hybridity become all the more urgent. The essays in this volume respond to this urgency, and they help to frame the study of Chinese diaspora and culture today.
Transpacific Cartographies
Title | Transpacific Cartographies PDF eBook |
Author | Melody Yunzi Li |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2023-12-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1978829353 |
Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.
The Chinese Diaspora
Title | The Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence J. C. Ma |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780742517561 |
Leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. Visit our website for sample chapters!
At Home in the Chinese Diaspora
Title | At Home in the Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | K. Kuah-Pearce |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2008-01-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230591620 |
This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.
Diasporic Histories
Title | Diasporic Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Riemenschnitter |
Publisher | Hong Kong University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2009-08-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 962209080X |
Chinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts, but the process of globalization has accelerated and diversified this phenomenon. Their fluid identities, innovative modernities, and generative talents in overcoming prejudice and multiple dislocations offer powerful examples of creative resistance to placebound traditions and nationalist histories. As the velocity of exchange in global media and commerce steadily increases, emergent and dynamic diasporas are increasingly influential in transnational discourses. This volume engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies. The book situates diasporic agency as an historical phenomenon with far-reaching political and social implications for both home and host societies and as a major site of contemporary cultural developments. By assembling a variety of regional, temporal, and disciplinary perspectives, it interrogates current notions of the diasporic subject, raising questions about respective ideological roots and cultural repositories as well as extensions and transgressions of new aesthetic vocabularies. Contributors include Roland Altenburger, Pheng Cheah, Prasenjit Duara, Kathrin Ensinger, Ping-kwan Leung, Helen F. Siu, Tamara S. Wagner, Mary Shuk-han Wong, Sau-ling C. Wong and Nicolas Zufferey.
Media and the Chinese Diaspora
Title | Media and the Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Wanning Sun |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2009-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134263597 |
Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora, especially the media's role in communication, fostering a sense of community and defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness'.