Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry / Edition 1

by Sharon K. Hom

Overview

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815333319
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/1999
Series:	Gender, Culture and Global Politics , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction: Points of No Return, Sharon K. Hom * In America, Zhang Zhen * (Un)fracturing Images: Positioning Chinese Diaspora in Law and Culture, Margaret Woo * The Jet-Lag of a Migratory Bird, Zhang Zhen * Self-Reinstating and Coming to Conscious Aloneness, Ma Yuanxi * Deep Into Smaland, Zhang Zhen * Multiple Readings and Personal Reconfigurations Against the Nationalist Brain, Zhong Xueping * (Per)forming Law: Deformations and Transformations, Sharon K. Hom * Coming to Terms with History, Vivien Ng * Too Many Things Forgotten, Zhang Zhen * Moving into Stillness, Eleanor Yung * Beijing Two, Zhang Zhen * Growing Up Colonial and Crossing Borders: Tales from a Reporter's Notebook, Ying Chan * Roundtable on the Fourth World Conference on Women: Sharon K. Hom, Ma Yuanxi, Tan Dali, Wang Zheng, Zhong Xueping

Editorial Reviews

Contributors to this collection were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. They are geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. They draw on backgrounds in law, journalism, choreography, film, martial arts, and literature, and discuss questions of identity, social location, voice, and feminist solidarity. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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