Chasing the American Dream in China : : Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland / / Leslie Kim Wang.
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 educ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian American Studies Today
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 p.) :; 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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