Chasing the American Dream in China centers the stories of second-generation Chinese American professionals who “return” to their ancestral homeland to build careers. This book highlights complex issues of ethnic identity and belonging faced by Chinese Americans in both the United States and China as they position themselves as indispensable economic bridges between the world’s two greatest superpowers.
Chasing the American Dream in China centers the stories of second-generation Chinese American professionals who “return” to their ancestral homeland to build careers. This book highlights complex issues of ethnic identity and belonging faced by Chinese Americans in both the United States and China as they position themselves as indispensable economic bridges between the world’s two greatest superpowers.
LESLIE WANG is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction 2 Growing Up In-Between: Chinese American Identity and Belonging in the United States 3 Creating the "Non-American American Dream" Overseas: Strategic In-Betweenness in Action 4 Perpetually Chinese, But Not Chinese Enough for China 5 "Leftover Women" and "Kings of the Candy Shop": The Gendered Experiences of ABCs in the Ancestral Homeland 6 Conclusion Appendix: Research Methods Acknowledgments Notes References Index
1 Introduction 2 Growing Up In-Between: Chinese American Identity and Belonging in the United States 3 Creating the "Non-American American Dream" Overseas: Strategic In-Betweenness in Action 4 Perpetually Chinese, But Not Chinese Enough for China 5 "Leftover Women" and "Kings of the Candy Shop": The Gendered Experiences of ABCs in the Ancestral Homeland 6 Conclusion Appendix: Research Methods Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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