Global Chinese Migrants and Performing Chineseness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6153574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edgar Wickberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-193 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Overseas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1793-0391 • E-ISSN: 1793-2548 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jco.2007.0039 |
| OpenAlex | W4246726006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay treats “Chineseness” as a work in progress for ethnic Chinese new immigrants to Global Cities, one in which individuals and families create, maintain, and modify the Chineseness component of their identity as they adapt to environments of multicultural populations, including earlier ethnic Chinese migrants. It is argued that the forms of Chineseness chosen and presented to others must be acceptable to both other Chinese and the local population as a whole, while also satisfying the immigrants' own values and the heritage they hope to give to their children. Their choices and presentation must also deal with national and local classifications and stereotypes about them. The raw material for their choices and inventions comes from their own experience, that of friends and earlier migrants and, over the past several years, sites on the internet. Vancouver is used as the example. In the Vancouver case, Chinese new immigrants must deal with Canadian official multiculturalism and the usage of the label “visible minority” as well as the Vancouver rhetoric about the character of that city
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Asian studies · China · Ethnic group · Geography · History of China · Identity (music · Immigration · Linguistics · Multiculturalism · Political science · Population · Presentation (obstetrics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Canadian Identity and History · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy
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Luo Di Sheng Gen (落地生根)
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Patrolling Chineseness
Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world
Re-Imagining Chinese Cultural Heritage in Surabaya
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.93 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |