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Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the
Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and
choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of
twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of
military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how
the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the
insecurity in their unclear political status but aware of the
social and economic possibilities in this gray zone between two
oppressive regimes. For the Sino-Burmese in Rangoon, the labels of
Chinese and Tayout (the Burmese equivalent of Chinese) fail to
recognize the linguistic and cultural differences between the
separate groups that have settled in the city-Hokkien, Cantonese,
and Hakka-and conflate this diverse population with the state
actions of the People's Republic of China and the supposed
dominance of the overseas Chinese network. In this first
English-language study of the Sino-Burmese, Mapping Chinese Rangoon
examines the concepts of ethnicity, territory, and nation in an
area where ethnicity is inextricably tied to state violence.
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the
Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and
choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of
twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of
military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how
the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states, cognizant of the
insecurity in their unclear political status but aware of the
social and economic possibilities in this gray zone between two
oppressive regimes. For the Sino-Burmese in Rangoon, the labels of
Chinese and Tayout (the Burmese equivalent of Chinese) fail to
recognize the linguistic and cultural differences between the
separate groups that have settled in the city-Hokkien, Cantonese,
and Hakka-and conflate this diverse population with the state
actions of the People's Republic of China and the supposed
dominance of the overseas Chinese network. In this first
English-language study of the Sino-Burmese, Mapping Chinese Rangoon
examines the concepts of ethnicity, territory, and nation in an
area where ethnicity is inextricably tied to state violence.
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