{"product_id":"chineseness-across-borders-9780822332633","title":"Chineseness across Borders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransnational ethnic identity issues studied through an ethnography of Chinese American visits to Chinese villages organized under a program set up by the Chinese government\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Andrea Louie provides an engaging ethnography of the dual investment of mainland Chinese and Chinese American youth in defining what it is to be Chinese in diaspora. Louie’s attention to the role of the Chinese state in fostering ‘geneological tourism’ helps to break new ground in Asian American and diaspora studies.”—Kamala Visweswaran, author of \u003ci\u003eFictions of Feminist Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Andrea Louie seamlessly guides a discussion of China and Chinese America from the difficult topography of race and nation to the heartfelt search for the understanding of ancestry and home.”—Shawn Wong, author of the novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Knees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Andrea Louie’s work heralds a new and important phase in the anthropology of transnationalism and globalization. She has produced a very convincing and elegantly nuanced ethnographic exploration of Chinese and Chinese American negotiations of ‘Chineseness.’”—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: On Boundary Crossings 1 \u003cbr\u003e 1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese\/Chinese American Roots 39 \u003cbr\u003e 2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour 69\u003cbr\u003e 3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of U.S. Multiculturalism 95\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (\u003ci\u003efeng shui lun liu zhuan\u003c\/i\u003e): Changing Views of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy 127\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter between the Chinese and the Chinese American Other 161\u003cbr\u003e 6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness 189\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 205\u003cbr\u003e Notes 211\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 229\u003cbr\u003e Index 239","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406034575703,"sku":"9780822332633","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332633.jpg?v=1730494317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chineseness-across-borders-9780822332633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}