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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Chinese Diaspora"”.
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The Role of Dress in the Embodiment and Articulation of Chinese Diaspora Identity in the UK
Studies of historical Chinese dress previously developed in relation to Western museum collection practices, and research into the contemporary Chinese fashion industry has grown alongside China’s increased importance across global fashion markets. Missing from these accounts is a consideration of …
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A transnational poetics of place: identity, otherness and the meaning of home in the poetry of Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Bei Dao, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe
… of home in the work of contemporary poets of the Chinese diaspora through critical examination and creative practice. It aims to redraw current accounts of contemporary poetry from 1980s to the present day, to derive new knowledge about the idea of race and the impact of a multi-ethnic environment …
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"Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativizing ""Chineseness"" Through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film"
… literature and film to discuss how overseas Chinese artists use narrative as a tool to reevaluate and renegotiate their hybrid identity. Through this evaluation, the theoretical notion of ""Chineseness"" is reconstructed within a temporal and spatial context. First, by historicizing the …
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The identity construction and representation of diasporic Chinese content creators on YouTube
A significant number of diasporic Chinese content creators have emerged on YouTube in recent years. Unlike their parents, these Chinese diasporas in Western world spend most of their time in the receiving countries and have been marginalized by the mainstream society during their growing up period. …
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The rhino horn and ivory trade: 1980-2020
… and we learned newly moneyed undiscerning Chinese consumers were eager to acquire mass-produced ivory items. We carried out market surveys in key illegal African and Asian markets to alert decision makers to control the surge in trafficking and unregulated retail sales, mostly for mainland …
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The impact of mixed embeddedness on the creation and growth of Chinese ethnic entrepreneurship in Indonesia
… that entrepreneurial activity is part of Chinese heritage, and hence entrepreneurship is attributed to overseas Chinese diaspora. Furthermore, research suggests a link between Chinese ethnicity and entrepreneurial growth. Kloosterman (2010) transcends such essentialisation of ethnicity by …
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Dharma and Difference in Dar es Salaam: the first Chinese Buddhist mission in Tanzania
Tanhua Temple, founded in 2018, is the first Chinese Buddhist mission in Tanzania, and part of a broader expansion of Chinese Buddhist institutions across the continent. This dissertation describes the development of this Buddhist mission based on data gathered over one year of participant …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
… examines the development and the regulation of Chinese ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates over the …