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850890
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Louie, Andrea.
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How Chinese are you? : : adopted Chinese youth and their families negotiate identity and culture /\ Andrea Louie.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: New York University Press,, [2015]
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1479859885
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: 9781479859887
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1479859885
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1479890529
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147989463X
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9781479890521
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9781479894635
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- A background on transnational and transracial adoption -- Beginnings: the adoption trip -- Asian American adoptive parents: freedom and flexibility -- White parents' constructions of Chineseness: preemptive parenting -- Negotiating Chineseness in everyday life -- Don't objectify me: Chinese adoptee teens -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children's "birth culture." However, transnational, transracial adoption also presents challenges to families who are trying to impart in their children cultural and racial identities that they themselves do not possess, while at the same time incorporating their own racial, ethnic, and religious identities. Ma.
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Adopted children-- United States.
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Chinese Americans-- Ethnic identity.
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Chinese-- Ethnic identity.
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Intercountry adoption-- China.
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Intercountry adoption-- United States.
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Interracial adoption-- United States.
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Racially mixed families-- United States.
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Adopted children.
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Chinese Americans-- Ethnic identity.
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Chinese-- Ethnic identity.
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Intercountry adoption.
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Interracial adoption.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Racially mixed families.
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China.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.734089/951073
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| LC Classification
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HV875.64.L646 2015
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