Global Spaces of Chinese Culture: Diasporic Chinese Communities in the United States and Germany

by Gent Jacqueline Van and Sylvia Van Ziegert

This book is an exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. It not only compares the local conditions of the Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the Chinese transnational imaginary. Van Ziegert analyzes three strategies that overseas Chinese use to articulate their identities as diasporic subjects:

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415805783
• ISBN13: 9780415805780
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"