Angelina Chin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3803348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelina Chin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelina |
| FAMILY NAME | Chin |
| SIGNATURE | CHIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Unsettling Exiles
Unsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.
Elusive Refuge
Book Review| January 01 2018 Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. By Laura Madokoro. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 331 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45 (cloth). Angelina Chin Angelina Chin Pomona College Angelina Chin is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. Her research interests revolve around transformations of citizenship, as well as transregional co…
Lisa Tran. Concubines in Court
In Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China, Lisa Tran focuses on the history of concubinage to understand the changing perception and practices of marriage in the twentieth century. Tran uses a wide array of sources in her book, including official documents, popular publications, newspaper reports, and legal records containing a collection of judicial interpretations and rulings. She also has done extensive research …
Diasporic Memories and Conceptual Geography in Post-colonial Hong Kong
This paper explores how the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to incorporate post-1997 Hong Kong into the framework of a Greater China. The construction of two 'narratives' are examined: the grand narrative of Chinese history in secondary school textbooks in Hong Kong; and the development of a new regional framework of the Pearl River Delta. The first narrative, which focuses on the past, signals the PRC governmen…
Bound to Emancipate
Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century China society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands the definition of women’s emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women, especially those who were engaged in stigmatized sexualized labor who were treated by urban elites as uncivilized, rural, threatening, and immoral. Beginning in the early twentieth century, as a result of growing…
Managing Women
Shanghai Love
Diasporic Memories and Conceptual Geography in Post-colonial Hong Kong
This paper explores how the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to incorporate post-1997 Hong Kong into the framework of a Greater China. The construction of two 'narratives' are examined: the grand narrative of Chinese history in secondary school textbooks in Hong Kong; and the development of a new regional framework of the Pearl River Delta. The first narrative, which focuses on the past, signals the PRC governmen…
Elusive Refuge
Book Review| January 01 2018 Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. By Laura Madokoro. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 331 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45 (cloth). Angelina Chin Angelina Chin Pomona College Angelina Chin is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. Her research interests revolve around transformations of citizenship, as well as transregional co…
Shanghai Love
Managing Women
Bound to Emancipate
Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century China society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands the definition of women’s emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women, especially those who were engaged in stigmatized sexualized labor who were treated by urban elites as uncivilized, rural, threatening, and immoral. Beginning in the early twentieth century, as a result of growing…
Diasporic Memories and Conceptual Geography in Post-colonial Hong Kong
This paper explores how the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been trying to incorporate post-1997 Hong Kong into the framework of a Greater China. The construction of two 'narratives' are examined: the grand narrative of Chinese history in secondary school textbooks in Hong Kong; and the development of a new regional framework of the Pearl River Delta. The first narrative, which focuses on the past, signals the PRC governmen…
Elusive Refuge
Book Review| January 01 2018 Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. By Laura Madokoro. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 331 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45 (cloth). Angelina Chin Angelina Chin Pomona College Angelina Chin is Associate Professor of History at Pomona College. Her research interests revolve around transformations of citizenship, as well as transregional co…
Lisa Tran. Concubines in Court
In Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China, Lisa Tran focuses on the history of concubinage to understand the changing perception and practices of marriage in the twentieth century. Tran uses a wide array of sources in her book, including official documents, popular publications, newspaper reports, and legal records containing a collection of judicial interpretations and rulings. She also has done extensive research …
Unsettling Exiles
Unsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · China (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works)