Chigusa Yamaura
Biographic Data
| ID | 169826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chigusa Yamaura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chigusa |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamaura |
| SIGNATURE | YAMAURA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4738-5644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Imagined Shrinking Community
How should we understand the relationship between nationalism and discourses of national decline, and more specifically the discourses of a shrinking nation? Driven by this question, this article highlights how bleak imaginings of the future also work to construct the relationship of the individual to the putative national community, creating forms of sentimental national belonging. This article analyses an emerging genre of best-selling books in…
From Manchukuo to Marriage
This essay examines Japanese-Chinese arranged cross-border marriages and investigates the ways in which participants legitimate and render such marriages comprehensible in light of national and local histories. Marriageability in this context is produced not through conceptions of "exotic difference" but instead distinct discourses of "familiarity." On the one hand, Chinese participants tactically narrate "blood ties" (xueyuan guanxi 血缘关系) to int…
Marrying Transnational, Desiring Local
This article examines cross-border marriages by analyzing the phenomenon in terms of negotiations of marriageability between Japan and China. It focuses on the commercial matchmaking practices between a transnational marriage agency in Tokyo and Dongyang in northeast China. Regardless of the participants' initial hesitation to engage in transnational matchmaking practices, I argue that it was the negotiation of local marital norms on a transnatio…
Marrying Transnational, Desiring Local
This article examines cross-border marriages by analyzing the phenomenon in terms of negotiations of marriageability between Japan and China. It focuses on the commercial matchmaking practices between a transnational marriage agency in Tokyo and Dongyang in northeast China. Regardless of the participants' initial hesitation to engage in transnational matchmaking practices, I argue that it was the negotiation of local marital norms on a transnatio…
An Imagined Shrinking Community
How should we understand the relationship between nationalism and discourses of national decline, and more specifically the discourses of a shrinking nation? Driven by this question, this article highlights how bleak imaginings of the future also work to construct the relationship of the individual to the putative national community, creating forms of sentimental national belonging. This article analyses an emerging genre of best-selling books in…
From Manchukuo to Marriage
This essay examines Japanese-Chinese arranged cross-border marriages and investigates the ways in which participants legitimate and render such marriages comprehensible in light of national and local histories. Marriageability in this context is produced not through conceptions of "exotic difference" but instead distinct discourses of "familiarity." On the one hand, Chinese participants tactically narrate "blood ties" (xueyuan guanxi 血缘关系) to int…
From Manchukuo to Marriage
This essay examines Japanese-Chinese arranged cross-border marriages and investigates the ways in which participants legitimate and render such marriages comprehensible in light of national and local histories. Marriageability in this context is produced not through conceptions of "exotic difference" but instead distinct discourses of "familiarity." On the one hand, Chinese participants tactically narrate "blood ties" (xueyuan guanxi 血缘关系) to int…
Marrying Transnational, Desiring Local
This article examines cross-border marriages by analyzing the phenomenon in terms of negotiations of marriageability between Japan and China. It focuses on the commercial matchmaking practices between a transnational marriage agency in Tokyo and Dongyang in northeast China. Regardless of the participants' initial hesitation to engage in transnational matchmaking practices, I argue that it was the negotiation of local marital norms on a transnatio…
An Imagined Shrinking Community
How should we understand the relationship between nationalism and discourses of national decline, and more specifically the discourses of a shrinking nation? Driven by this question, this article highlights how bleak imaginings of the future also work to construct the relationship of the individual to the putative national community, creating forms of sentimental national belonging. This article analyses an emerging genre of best-selling books in…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · China (2 works) · History (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Phenomenon (2 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (2 works)