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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Overseas Chinese"”.
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Chinese-language Cyberspace: Overseas Chinese Cyber Nationalism and Migrant Identity
… multi-faceted online nationalism manifested by Chinese overseas transnational migrants. It establishes the relationship between migrant nationalism and identity by interrogating the roles that the internet plays in the migrant identity construction process in the New Zealand context. The …
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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
… ethnographic study focuses on state-sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics (OCAs) and China's managed cultural globalisation based on two years of multi-sited fieldwork in South Africa, Australia, and China. Extending Goffman's (1956) theoretical frameworks of everyday dramatism such as the …
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Qiaoxiang and managing overseas Chinese affairs in contemporary North China: The case of Changyi county and its sojourners
… of sojourners, and government officials managing overseas Chinese affairs—shaped and were shaped by qiaoxiang society, which features the tricky practice of ‘crossing the border of the circle of the political system’ (tizhi, 体制). Such interactions between the government authority and each …
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危与机:论新加坡早期华人银行之生存发展1903-1945 = Crises and changes: The development of Overseas Chinese Banks in Singapore during 1903-1945
This preliminary study examines how the overseas Chinese banks in Singapore developed to compete successfully against the Western banks and the traditional Chinese financial institutions during 1903-1945. Compared with the Western banks and traditional Chinese money houses, the Chinese banks were …
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Tradewinds and Traditions: Exploring the Archaeology of German Gulch
… was a location of cultural interaction, between Overseas Chinese, European, and European American communities all focused on mining the mineral resources of the gulch. The collection presents an opportunity to test assumptions about bounded ethnic relationships as well as the process of cultural …
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Tradewinds and Traditions: Exploring the Archaeology of German Gulch
… was a location of cultural interaction, between Overseas Chinese, European, and European American communities all focused on mining the mineral resources of the gulch. The collection presents an opportunity to test assumptions about bounded ethnic relationships as well as the process of cultural …
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Material culture, social networks, and the Chinese of Ouray, Colorado, 1880-1920
… trash midden located directly behind an historic Chinese laundry. Previous research in Overseas Chinese archaeology has focused on historically large Chinese communities and processes of acculturation, resulting in a homogenous perception of past Overseas Chinese experiences. The purpose of this …
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On Not Learning Chinese: Multiple Chineseness of the Chinese Schools in the Philippines
… thesis aims to investigate the multiplicity of Chineseness produced in the Chinese schools in the Philippines. The study draws on participant observation based on my one-year teaching in a Philippine-Chinese school, on-site interviews with students, parents, administrators, educationalists and …
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Historical and archaeological investigations at 26Pe2137: American Canyon, Pershing County, Nevada
Previous archaeological investigations concerning overseas Chinese in the United States have focused on artifact assemblages in an effort to determine the level of acculturation of Chinese into dominant Euroamerican cultures. These studies indicate that Chinese tenaciously clung to traditional …
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新马诗人淡莹诗中文学地景之研究 = A study of poetic landscapes in Danying's poems
… and her lurking fears of being rootless as an overseas Chinese. The continuous quests for a cultural root and the sense of belonging are implied in the landscape of memory, which is represented in melancholic statements similar to the feminine expressions of ?guiyuan?(??) in traditional Chinese …
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从语码转换到语言转移以槟榔屿潮州话为例 = From Code-Switching to Language Shift: A Case Study on Penang Teochew
… dialect is spoken by the second largest group of overseas Chinese in the island enclosure. This paper has arrived at a conclusion whereby code-switching is NOT an indispensable stage in language shift, after analyzing 50 monologue corpus gathered via the Pear Stories video. There is a neat shift …
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Tourism Media Dynamics: Narratives of the Nation-State
… ideology; secondly, between interpretations from overseas Chinese audiences and nation-state narratives delivered via the tourism media. In analyzing the first dialogue, this dissertation reveals that the pursuit of collective and monolithic national imagery has caused a representational violence …
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Investigating the Intersection of Chinese and Euro-American Healthcare Practices in Nevada from 1860-1930
This research explores the intersection of Chinese and Euro-American healthcare practices through an investigation of medicinal artifacts located in seven Nevada archaeological collections -- Lovelock Chinatown, Old Cortez, Virginia City Chinatown, Island Mountain, Yeong Wo Mercantile, and sites …
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Initial Investigations of Possible Historic Chinese Habitation of Site 24SA0122 (Poacher Gulch)
… of Initial Investigations of Possible Historic Chinese Habitation of Site 24SA2122 (Poacher Gulch) Chair: Dr. Kelly Dixon Site 24SA0122 is composed of a historic cabin footprint, road, trail, and masonry terraces. It is located in Poacher Gulch, a narrow North East trending drainage in Western …
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Initial Investigations of Possible Historic Chinese Habitation of Site 24SA0122 (Poacher Gulch)
… of Initial Investigations of Possible Historic Chinese Habitation of Site 24SA2122 (Poacher Gulch) Chair: Dr. Kelly Dixon Site 24SA0122 is composed of a historic cabin footprint, road, trail, and masonry terraces. It is located in Poacher Gulch, a narrow North East trending drainage in Western …
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"The Coming Man From Canton": Chinese Experience in Montana (1862-1943)
<p>The Chinese immigrants who came to Montana during the 19th and 20th centuries forged a new community. The goals of this dissertation were to create a historical and archaeological context for Chinese Experience in Montana, and to frame the interpretation of these results within a social …
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"The Coming Man From Canton": Chinese Experience in Montana (1862-1943)
<p>The Chinese immigrants who came to Montana during the 19th and 20th centuries forged a new community. The goals of this dissertation were to create a historical and archaeological context for Chinese Experience in Montana, and to frame the interpretation of these results within a social …
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"Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativizing ""Chineseness"" Through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film"
… Asian 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 …
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Ethnicity and community : southern Chinese immigrants and descendants in Vancouver, 1945-1980
This study seeks to understand Chinese ethnicity as a process of ongoing cultural construction engaged in by Chinese people in Vancouver from 1945 to 1980. Drawing evidence primarily from the ethnic press and voluntary organizations, it uncovers a diversity of cultural positions articulated by …
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