China in Argentina

Ethnographies of a Global Expansion

Buch | Softcover

XV, 172 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-92424-9 (ISBN)

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This is the first book to shed light on the growing presence, influence and expansion of China in the daily life of Argentina. While most previous academic studies focus on the geopolitical and macroeconomics dimensions of the relations between Argentina and China, this book shows at a micro-social level the multiple facets of the economic, political and social influence of China in Argentina. The book presents ethnographic studies of encounters of actors and negotiation of identities from Argentina and China in companies, schools, restaurants, hospitals, districts, public and private institutions in Argentina. Themes discussed in the ethnographies include: identity struggle and strategic uses of culture in Buenos Aires' s Chinatown; teaching Chinese as the first foreign language or teaching it as a heritage language in a bilingual school; the contested production of images of Chinese authenticity in Chinese restaurants; the connections and contestations between so-called "Western medicine" and so-called "Chinese Traditional Medicine"; and the conflictive relations between Chinese expatriate bosses of Chinese state-owned enterprises and their Argentinean employees.

Máximo Badaró is Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina) and Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM, Argentina), where he is also the director of the Bachelor Degree Program in Social Anthropology.

Chapter 1 Introduction. China in Argentina: ethnographic perspectives of a global expansion.- Chapter 2 "Today we are all Chinatown": identity struggle and strategic uses of culture in Buenos Aires' Chinatown.- Chapter 3 "The language of the future": Mandarin Chinese as cultural identity and merchandise in an Argentine-Chinese bilingual school in Buenos Aires.- Chapter 4 "This is not Chinese food": relocation, authenticity and global cuisines in Chinese restaurants in Buenos Aires.- Chapter 5 "Chinese medicine is not just acupuncture": the experience of Chinese immigrants in the Argentinian healthcare system.- Chapter 6 Avoiding encounters: an ethnographic analysis of Sino-Argentine business relationships in Argentina's oil industry.- Chapter 7 "Now is all about China": recent developments in Chinese Studies in Argentina.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia
Zusatzinfo	XV, 172 p. 20 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	253 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Argentina • argentinian culture • China-Latin America Relations • chinese immigration • ethnography • Global China
ISBN-10	3-030-92424-6 / 3030924246
ISBN-13	978-3-030-92424-9 / 9783030924249
Zustand	Neuware