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Li, Robin Anne.

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'Being good Chinese': Chinese scholarly elites and immigration in mid-century America.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Being good Chinese': Chinese scholarly elites and immigration in mid-century America./
Author:	Li, Robin Anne.
Description:	407 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Paul A. Anderson; Richard Candida Smith.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-10A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3238019
ISBN:	9780542921780

'Being good Chinese': Chinese scholarly elites and immigration in mid-century America.
Li, Robin Anne.

'Being good Chinese': Chinese scholarly elites and immigration in mid-century America. - 407 p.

Advisers: Paul A. Anderson; Richard Candida Smith.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2006.

Oral histories of Chinese student immigrants reveal the contours of interdependent U.S.-China nation-building projects in the mid-twentieth century. This dissertation traces the motifs of status, space, race, and gender present in four oral history narratives that echo and respond to nationalist and internationalist projects deployed by China and U.S. The conditions of both Chinese and U.S. nation-building produced a new formulation of Chinese American identity that responded to existing stereotypes of Chinese in the U.S. while producing a distinct community among broader Chinese American identities.

ISBN: 9780542921780Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

'Being good Chinese': Chinese scholarly elites and immigration in mid-century America.
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520 $a Chinese elite students in the U.S. played both symbolic and functional roles in the assertion of U.S. and Chinese nationalism in a transnational context. My chapters move from American missionary projects in China and post-Qing republicanism through U.S. cold war cultural exchange projects and mid-century American gender and domesticity to trace the emergent conditions that produced this immigrant cohort. The deployment of gender in the racialization, demonization, and idealization of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. erected gendered discourses that figured prominently in the construction of national identity on a global level. Abstract notions of nation and nationalism require embodiment in order to resonate with the national citizen; calling upon motifs of gender "biologized" more abstract narratives of power. In characterizations of self and other, gender was central to U.S. international relationships, not only between the U.S. and China, but also Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.
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