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Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842–1943
Emma Jinhua Teng
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Description for Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842–1943
Paperback. Compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 21 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCH; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and ... Read more
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276277
SKU
V9780520276277
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About Emma Jinhua Teng
Emma Jinhua Teng is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and the T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations and Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at MIT and the author of Taiwan's Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683-1895 (Harvard, 2004).
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