Chasing the American dream in China : Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland

Chasing the American dream in China : Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland /

"Few studies have highlighted the stories of middle-class children of immigrants who move to their ancestral homelands-countries with which they share cultural ties but haven't necessarily had direct contact. Chasing the American Dream in China addresses this gap by examining the lives of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Leslie K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Asian American studies today.
Subjects:
American Dream.
Immigrants > China > Social conditions.
Americans > China > Social conditions.
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Chinese Americans > China.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Immigrants > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration
Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity
Chinese Americans
Americans > Social conditions
American Dream
China > Emigration and immigration.
China
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Growing up in-between: Chinese American identity and belonging in the United States
  • Creating the "non-American American dream" overseas: strategic in-betweenness in action
  • Perpetually Chinese, but not Chinese enough for China
  • "Leftover women" and "kings of the candy shop": the gendered experiences of ABCs in the ancestral homeland
  • Conclusion.

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