ISBN:
9789004438552
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 154 Seiten
Series Statement:
Chinese overseas volume 16
Series Statement:
Chinese overseas
Uniform Title:
Traction : mobility, religion and patriarchy in Shanghai
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Australian National University 2010
DDC:
305.6/751
Keywords:
Geschäftsmann
;
Chinesen
;
Christ
;
Ausland
;
Schanghai
;
Chinese / Foreign countries / Ethnic identity
;
Christians / China
;
Aliens / China
;
Identity (Psychology) / Religious aspects / Christianity
;
Identity (Psychology) / Economic aspects / China
;
China / Ethnic relations
;
China / Social conditions / 1976-2000
;
China / Social conditions / 2000-
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Schanghai
;
Chinesen
;
Ausland
;
Geschäftsmann
;
Christ
Abstract:
Family -- Place -- Community -- Citizenship.
Abstract:
"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 financially secure, these elites adopt a long-term view of their time in the country. This study examines how these elites put Christianity to work mediating their hopes, fears, and obligations in order to illuminate the ways in which this overseas Chinese experience departs from existing academic models of diasporic Chinese as either bridge-builders or pragmatic capitalists. By focusing on religion, this study offers novel insights into how overseas Chinese are making a place for themselves in a globalising and increasingly powerful China"--
Note:
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Australian National University, 2010, under the title: Traction : mobility, religion and patriarchy in Shanghai. - Includes bibliographical references and index
