Chinese-ness: The Meanings of Identity and the Nature of Belonging

by Wing Young Huie

Book Overview

Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the United States, and in China.

Huie, the youngest of six children and the only one born in the United States, grew up in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681340429
• ISBN13: 9781681340425
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.9" x 8.1"