At Home in the Chinese Diaspora : Memories, Identities and Belongings

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Diasporic Memories and Identities....Pages 1-11 The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney....Pages 12-32 Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia....Pages 33-51 Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney....Pages 52-73 Generational Identities through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs....Pages 74-93 Moving through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s....Pages 94-110 Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns....Pages 111-127 Politics, Commerce and Construction of Chinese ‘Otherness’ in Korea: Open Port Period (1876–1910)....Pages 128-145 Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: the Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China....Pages 146-163 Memories, Belonging and Homemaking: Chinese Migrants in Germany....Pages 164-186 A Century of Not Belonging — the Chinese in South Africa....Pages 187-205 Look Who’s Talking: Migrating Narratives and Identity Construction....Pages 206-223 In Love with Music: Memory, Identity and Music in Hong Kong’s Diasporic Films....Pages 224-243 Conclusion: through the Diasporic Looking-Glass....Pages 244-253 Back Matter....Pages 254-259 In At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings, the contributors interrogate current debates in relation to the ways in which memory, identity and sense of belonging help shape migrants' understanding of self, the diasporic community(ies) and the wider society in which they live. They describe the local and transnational challenges such diasporic communities face in their daily lives, how memories are reproduced, how they serve as social and cultural capital, how they create tensions and conflicts and how they change and impact on the individuals and communities across generational barriers. The authors also explore the role of place in situating memories and how the media, films and music portray and reinforce the understanding of identity