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Re-articulating "Culture" after the Big Migration of 1949 from Mainland China: Community-based Practices among Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong and Northern and Southern Taiwan.

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Title/Author:	Re-articulating "Culture" after the Big Migration of 1949 from Mainland China: Community-based Practices among Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong and Northern and Southern Taiwan./
Author:	Li, Danzhou.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	213 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-06A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
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ISBN:	9781369409949

Re-articulating "Culture" after the Big Migration of 1949 from Mainland China: Community-based Practices among Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong and Northern and Southern Taiwan.
Li, Danzhou.

Re-articulating "Culture" after the Big Migration of 1949 from Mainland China: Community-based Practices among Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong and Northern and Southern Taiwan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 213 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

After losing the Chinese Civil War in 1949, millions of troops and civilians loyal to the Chinese Nationalist Party migrated from Mainland China to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. This research applies a visual studies approach combined with visual anthropological methods, visual semiotics, a socio-cultural critique of cultural geography to this migration and focuses specifically on these displaced mainland immigrants and their inhabited spaces to thoroughly investigate the meaning of "culture" in this context. Drawn from an interdisciplinary approach that blends visual methods, sensory experiences and new media technologies in the practice of ethnographic writing - in addition to recent research in community, minority and folk memory in Chinese visual anthropology - this research establishes a methodological framework that produces a self-reflexive ethnographic narration. A multitude of non-prescriptive visual research methods are flexibly fine-tuned to structure the collected data and examine different theories but that always revolve around a conceptualization of "the big migration of 1949". Given that a new trend of visual studies that claims a technologized body operates as a living medium to receive, process, and transmit images, I start this research in terms of a visual stimulus received from an old family photo. By way of filtering, I process the imagery information that has been internalized into the sensory organs of my body through community-based fieldworks. I prefer to remap certain shattered fragments of memory landmarks by revisiting a set of chosen community cases in Hong Kong and northern and southern Taiwan that are related to the big migration of 1949. I focus on the cultural artifacts and practices through which the meaning of community culture is negotiated and developed. In particular, my visual rhetorical analysis shows how meaning is transferred from fictional texts to place-making as a cultural practice. My socio-cultural critique of landscape visuality probes the social relations and power structures in place-making. Three case studies that I undertake in this research include Treasure Hill Village, Tiu Keng Leng, and a naval veterans' village, which are located in Northern Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southern Taiwan, respectively. In the last stage, my body begins to produce and transmit images. The emplaced ethnographer's experiences and the dislocated immigrants' experiences are combined with audiovisual technologies to produce an ethnographic video expressing the anxiety related to the Chinese Civil War and its aftermath, which has worsened with land property capitalization. By closely investigating the individual narratives, everyday life and cultural memory that integrates into place-making and by producing a set of hybrid "image-text-video" ethnographic narratives, this research (eventually) wanders through a subterranean passage that is neither the mainstream in the current study of the cross- Strait relationship nor the pan-politicized debates of Taiwanese post-colonial studies. Instead, it captures a certain "lived" experiences of "dislocation and reestablishment". Rooted in the Chinese Civil War, a reticent but continuing uncertainty has a contemporary echo that manifests in a combination of long-lasting original dislocation memory, survival anxiety aroused by the demolition of immigrant housing in furtherance of urban renewal, and the long-term unpredictability of cross-Strait relations.

ISBN: 9781369409949Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Cultural anthropology.
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Cultural geography

Re-articulating "Culture" after the Big Migration of 1949 from Mainland China: Community-based Practices among Mainland Immigrants in Hong Kong and Northern and Southern Taiwan.
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