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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business
Series: Chinese Worlds
Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different...
Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Cultural Hybridity
Contradictions and Dilemmas
This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this...
Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Hybrid Hong Kong
Hybrid Hong Kong attempts to attract and excite the intellectual, cultural, economic and political elites as well as the intelligent laymen of Hong Kong - hopefully enough for them to take a closer look at their society - while engendering a public discourse on the city's identity, its past,...
Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Chinese Entertainment
Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of...
Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism
Series: Chinese Worlds
Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal...
Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge