Contesting Chineseness

Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants

Sylvia ANG (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

154 Seiten

2022
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-246-9 (ISBN)

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Nearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic survival and loyal to the communist regime. The reception of new Chinese migrants, however, has been less than warm in some places. In Singapore, tensions between Singaporean-Chinese and new Chinese arrivals present a puzzle: why are there tensions between ethnic Chinese settlers and new Chinese arrivals despite similarities in phenotype, ancestry and customs? Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants investigates this puzzle and details how ethnic Chinese subjects negotiate their identities in an age of contemporary Chinese migration and China’s ascent.

Sylvia Ang is Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University. She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore from 2018 to 2020. Her research draws on her engagement with the superdiverse cities she has lived in (Singapore and Melbourne, Australia) to analyse migration and ethnic relations, class, gender and racism.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Contesting Chineseness
Global anxieties at China’s ascent and the outflow of Chinese immigrants
The invisibilities of co-ethnic politics
Immigration and the cultural politics of being Chinese
Imagining Chinese identity
Insider, outsider and digital ethnography
Overview of the book

1 Who’s Chinese?
Once a Chinese, always a Chinese
Realizing the China dream
De-Chineseness in Singapore
Re-sinicizing Singapore
Hostage to China’s rise and fall

2 Not the lower classes
“We won’t go overly dressed”
“I don’t dare to eat their food”
“Dirty” women
Sensory disturbances, repulsion, and class
Denying cultural citizenship
Marked as a Chinese migrant

3 A better Chinese man
Hierarchy of Chinese Masculinities
“We are of low quality”
Higher sushi makes a better man
Performing Chinese masculinity
Seeking solace on WeChat
Reimagining the better Chinese man

4 When a Chinese does not speak Chinese
Chineseness as Mandarin
Other ways to be Chinese
Fragmenting identities
My Chinese culture is better than your Chinese culture
Civilizational or national belonging?
Regulating the internet
Sanitized Chineseness

5 In the new Chinatown
Racialization and the politics of place
The original Chinatown and the European imaginary
Geylang: The new Chinatown
The media’s complicity
Chinese migrants react: Self Orientalisation
Locals’ displacement
Two Chinatowns, two imaginaries of Chineseness

Conclusion: A hierarchy of Chineseness
Coconstitution of China and Singapore’s Chineseness
Enduring Chineseness

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Mobilities in Asia
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	94-6372-246-7 / 9463722467
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-246-9 / 9789463722469
Zustand	Neuware