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BL
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946203
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b700573
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| Main Entry
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Chan, Kwok B.
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| Title & Author
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Chinese identities, ethnicity and cosmopolitanism /\ Chan Kwok-bun.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Chinese worlds
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1 online resource (xviii, 166 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203029534
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: 9780203029534
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0415369290
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9780415369299
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-160) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Rethinking Chinese ethnicity -- 2. Civic identity and ethnicity -- 3. The migrant family drama -- 4. The ethnicity paradox of immigrants -- 5. One face, many masks -- 6. Migration, dispersal and the cosmopolitan.
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| Abstract
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Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society. With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity in a range of established places of convergence, Chan draws on extensive experience and knowledge in the field to bring the reader a fresh, fascinating and ultimately very human analysis of.
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Chinese-- Foreign countries.
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National characteristics, Chinese.
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Chinese-- Foreign countries.
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National characteristics, Chinese.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.895/1059
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DS721.C472135 2005eb
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