Overseas Chinese Christians in contemporary China : : religion, mobility, and belonging /

Overseas Chinese Christians in contemporary China : : religion, mobility, and belonging / / Sin Wen Lau.

"Overseas Chinese Christians in Contemporary China explores how diasporic Chinese understandings of what it means to be Chinese is changing in post-1979 China. Ethnographically, it focuses on overseas Chinese Christian business people residing in Shanghai. Hyper-mobile, well-educated, and finan...

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Superior document:Chinese Overseas ; 16
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Lau, Sin Wen,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Chinese Overseas ; 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Text
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Bridge-Builders or Pragmatic Capitalists
  • 2 Working Religion
  • 3 Traction
  • 4 Shanghai: a Globalising Marketplace
  • 5 Bites of Traction
  • 1 Family
  • 1 Rhythms of Tension
  • 2 A Moral Pact
  • 3 Brother Soh: "We Always Go Back to God for Final Guidance"
  • 4 Sister Soh: "If God Wants Me to Be Here, This Place Is My Home"
  • 5 Tsu Min: "If You're Not Adaptable, You Can't Stay in a Foreign Place for a Long Time"
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 2 Place
  • 1 Moving beyond Native Place
  • 2 Centring Place
  • 3 A Home in Mobility Given by and for God
  • 4 Mediating Global Capitalism by Inscribing a Sacred Frame
  • 5 Connecting a Christian Territory within State Regulations
  • 6 Emplacement by Appropriating an Indigenous Christian History
  • 7 Conclusion
  • 3 Community
  • 1 Restructuring Community among Other Chinese
  • 2 Circle of Joy
  • 3 Maintaining Class
  • 4 Discordant Politics
  • 5 Jockeying Around Race
  • 6 Perpetuating the Circle of Joy
  • 7 Conclusion
  • 4 Citizenship
  • 1 Accumulated Experiences of Citizenship
  • 2 Religious Citizenship as a Mode of Migrant Incorporation
  • 3 Embarking on a Business Mission Planned by God
  • 4 Law-Abiding Residents Working with the Chinese State
  • 5 Reformatting Values and Transforming Business as National Contribution
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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