Chasing the American dream in China : Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland / Leslie Kim Wang.
Chasing the American dream in China : Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland / Leslie Kim Wang.
Chasing the American dream in China : Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland / Leslie Kim Wang.
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New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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G 2021/0158
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English
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vii, 171 pages ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Growing up in-between: Chinese American identity and belonging in the United States -- Creating the "non-American American dream" overseas: strategic in-betweenness in action -- Perpetually Chinese, but not Chinese enough for China -- "Leftover women" and "kings of the candy shop": t...
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New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2021]
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"Few studies have highlighted the stories of middle-class children of immigrants who move to their ancestral homelands-countries with which they share cultural ties but haven't necessarily had direct contact. Chasing the American Dream in China addresses this gap by examining the lives of highly educated American-born Chinese (ABC) professionals wh...
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Chasing the American dream in China : Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland / Leslie Kim Wang.
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Chinese Americans in the ancestral homeland
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Asian American studies today
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-162) and index.
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G 2021/0158
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74VKa7xGg20y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa7xGg20y
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0813599377
9780813599373
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951.004951073
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991024388518202626
