Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States

by Andrea Louie

What happens when Chinese American youths travel to mainland China in search of their ancestral roots, only to realise that in many ways they still feel out of place, or when mainland Chinese realise that the lives of the Chinese abroad may not be as good as they had imagined? By considering programmmes designed to facilitate interactions between overseas Chinese and their ancestral homelands, Andrea Louie highlights how these programs not only create...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822332639
• ISBN13: 9780822332633
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"