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Claiming Chinese Identity (Hardcover)
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Claiming Chinese Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Asian Americans
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This study of first generation Chinese youth and their parents who
have immigrated to Houston reveals the ways in which this group
resists assimilation into the dominant Western milieu and instead
accommodates itself as a paracommunity with the culture of its host
city. Chinese parents counter Western influence on their children
by enrolling them in Chinese language schools, having them
participate in Chinese community events, and encouraging them to
develop a network of Chinese friends.
The study presents a detailed ethnography of a Chinese language
school. It traces the negotiations between traditional Chinese
beliefs-in particular, unquestioned submission to authority,
kinship systems, and the denial of the singular self-and the
developed sense of self in Western individualism. This study of
identity reformation clearly indicates that there is space within
the dialectics of immigration and the related cultural processes
that enables the immigrant community to resist the image of all
diasporic people as liminars and hybrids. The Chinese in this study
do not sacrifice their past and their values in order to
reformulate themselves for the present. Rather, they are determined
to create a self-referential identity within a living and growing
Chinese culture.
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