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" The reemergence of Vietnam's ethnic Chinese community through local, national, and transnational structures "
Yu, LiAnne Sandra
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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914103
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TL2sx5357z
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Yu, LiAnne Sandra
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The reemergence of Vietnam's ethnic Chinese community through local, national, and transnational structures\ Yu, LiAnne Sandra
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UC San Diego
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2006
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2006
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This dissertation is an examination of how the ethnic Chinese community in Vietnam, the Hoa, re-built their economic and social structures after the persecution they faced post-1975. In the decade after the fall of Saigon to Communist forces, the wealthiest and most powerful Hoa were forced out of their positions, and over half a million people from that community left Vietnam as refugees. By the mid-1980's, it seemed that Cholon, once the thriving center of Vietnam's Hoa entrepreneurial activity, had lost its identity as a "Chinatown" and was becoming an undifferentiated district within what was now called Ho Chi Minh City. My ethnographic research within Cholon has explored the everyday practices and social forms that have contributed to this "reemergence" of Hoa society, after what seemed to be its demise post-1975. The official, state endorsed version of the story is that the Hoa are a hard working ethnic minority and have leveraged their entrepreneurial talents to help rebuild Vietnam and create the conditions for the country's reintegration into the global arena after a period of isolation. This dissertation has explored how the Hoa have actually experienced the reemergence of their ethnic community. How has their Chinese identity been experienced, shared, and transformed along the way? This dissertation focuses on three themes: The Hoa community's reemergence in the last decade has resulted from various developments on three structural levels: local, national, and transnational. Hoa perceptions of a "homeland" have not remained static and tied to China. Rather, the notion of a homeland has transformed into the idea of a future or promise land, now represented by the West. Hoa entrepreneurial activity must be considered in terms of the gendered and emotional nature of economic business relationships - which often transcend into the personal realm
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