{"product_id":"how-chinese-are-you-9781479894635","title":"How Chinese Are You","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children's birth culture. However, transnational, transracial adoption also presents challenges to families who are trying to impart in their children cultural and racial identities that they themselves do not possess, while at the same time incorporating their own racial, ethnic, and religious identities. Many of their ideas are based on assumptions about how authentic Chinese and Chinese Americans practice Chinese culture. Based on a comparative ethnographic study of white and Asian American adoptive parents over an eight year period, How Chinese Are You? explores how white adoptive parents, adoption professionals, Chinese American adoptive parents, and teens adopted from China as children negotiate m\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Louie has written a fascinating, rich ethnography on how identity and racial consciousness are understood among adoptees from China. While Chineseness, Chinese Americanness, and Asian Americanness are important to all of them, the children in her study nevertheless describe multi-layered and multi-dimensional identities that explain how culture and race reinvent themselves. This is a must read for everyone interested in how culture and race remain fluid. -- Margaret M. Chin,author of Sewing Women: Immigrants in the New York City Garment Industry\u003cbr\u003eLouie breathes new life into the study of transnational Chinese adoption using a personal touch, a sympathetic critique, and a very readable ethnographic narrative. As the first large cohort of people adopted from China enters their twenties, Louies work provides a welcome look at the multiple and innovative potentialities of constructing selves. -- Sara K. Dorow,author of Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship\u003cbr\u003eAny transracial adoptive parent with a Chinese child will find immense value in this book, which provides strategic information on the adoption process of Chinese children and the issues that inevitably arise as children grow older, confront racism, and wish to connect to their birth cultures. Louies many contrast groupshelp greatly to pinpoint cultural differences and developmental changes that adoptive parents will inevitably confront. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eLouie writes with little jargon, making the volume quite accessible. The ethnography will be useful for undergraduate and graduate classes covering transnationalism, family formation, race, and ethnicity. * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents      Acknowledgments ix      1. Introduction 1      2. A Background on Transnational and Transracial Adoption 39      3. Beginnings: The Adoption Trip 61      4. Asian American Adoptive Parents: Freedom and Flexibility 88      5. White Parents' Constructions of Chineseness: Preemptive Parenting 139      6. Negotiating Chineseness in Everyday Life 185      7. Don't Objectify Me: Chinese Adoptee Teens 226      8. Conclusion 259      Notes 271      References 277      Index 285      About the Author 291","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409094549847,"sku":"9781479894635","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479894635.jpg?v=1730505420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-chinese-are-you-9781479894635","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}