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Informationen zum Autor Andrea Louie is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University. Klappentext Transnational ethnic identity issues studied through an ethnography of Chinese American visits to Chinese villages organized under a program set up by the Chinese government. Zusammenfassung By considering programmmes designed to facilitate interactions between overseas Chinese and their ancestral homelands! this book highlights how these programs not only create opportunities for connections but also reveal the dis-junctures that separate Chinese Americans from their ancestral homeland and mainland Chinese from the Chinese abroad. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: On Boundary Crossings 1 1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese/Chinese American Roots 39 2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour 69 3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of U.S. Multiculturalism 95 4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan): Changing Views of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy 127 5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter between the Chinese and the Chinese American Other 161 6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness 189 Epilogue 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 229 Index 239
