Marital Acts : : Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora /

Marital Acts : : Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora / / Jiemin Bao.

Succeeding waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the United States, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. In this exciting new study, Jiemin Bao focuses on how cultural identities--as seen through the lens of marriage--play a centr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Bao, Jiemin,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Language Conventions
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I Positions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Ongoing Process of Identity Formation
  • Part II The Chinkao Experience
  • 3. The Gendered Politics of Migration and Marriage
  • 4. Middle-Class Chinese-ness, Nei/Wai Politics
  • 5. Changes in Sexual Practice: "Same Bed, Different Dreams"
  • Part III The Lukchin Experience
  • 6. Hybrid Identities
  • 7. What's in a Wedding?
  • 8. Naturalized Sexuality and Middle-Class Respectability
  • 9. Shang Jia: "Family Business"
  • Part IV The Chinese Thai American Experience
  • 10. Multiple Belongings
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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