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083843
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The paper argues that a project to re-member China lies embedded in The Monster that Is History as Wang examines the monstrous violence which ravages modern China through the lenses of fiction. Through the alchemy of what the author calls 'diasporic ambivalence', it finally assumes the form of huawen wenxue, or Sinophone literature. As the project inevitably encounters resistance from the Taiwanese nativist, it falls into an aporia/differend between Sinophone and Taiwanese literature as struggling means to constitute a community formation.
*This paper comes from the author's MA thesis in comparative literature from the University of Washington. During the writing of the thesis, Professor Francisco Kiko Benetiz, my principal advisor, and Professor Yomi Braester, my reader, provided patient, careful and invaluable guidance. I have benefited tremendously from their comments and criticisms, though I alone, of course, am responsible for any inadequacy in the paper. I am most fortunate to have them as mentors: To them my deepest gratitude and heartfelt thanks
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083841
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2008.
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This research provides an empirical assessment of the relationship between places of socialization and ethnic self-identity preferences among Asian immigrants in the US from separate parts of a politically divided homeland. Does place of socialization influence the (sub)ethnic self-identity of Chinese Americans raised in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong? How do socialization context and transnational political concerns, among other factors, help structure the relationship? Benefiting from recent advancements in targeted ethnic sampling and telephone survey methodology, this paper examines results of the 2007 Chinese American Homeland Politics Survey to study the contour and sources of ethnic identity preferences among Chinese in the US from separate homeland origins. The usefulness of a theoretical framework that contrasts primordial ties with transnational political ties in understanding the structuring of identity preferences at the subethnic level is tested.
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083842
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Despite that the Chinese in the Caribbean, unlike Africans or East Indians, is vaguely impressive in terms of racial and social impact; their stance and viewpoint are quite unique and insightful. Willi Chen and Jan Lowe Shinebourne, representing Chinese Caribbean Diaspora, are impressive enough with its strong literary impact. They both show the ambivalence acquired in the process of 'positioning', as well as the strong heritage of their ancestral mother land of China. Chen's work is characteristic with its neutral stance of Chinese characters, and Shinebourne makes her protagonists wander with intermingling sense of tradition and progression. This ambivalence, however, can become a positive sway between groups which may be different, conflictive, or even hostile to each other, and that sway can bring a righteous and truthful judgment to the matter. The Chinese Caribbean writings contribute with the dialectic philosophies included in and inherited from Chinese traditions.
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