Beyond Chinatown, beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States

GeoJournal ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Beijing’s Leading Indigenous and Expat Jazz Musicians

Jazz in China ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Eugene Marlow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Hainan Island ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Music ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Jazz History ◽  
Jazz Musician ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This chapter focuses on jazz musicians in Beijing. While Shanghai owned China's jazz history spotlight in the first half of the twentieth century, Beijing is not without its own indigenous leading lights, musically speaking. Some have been trained in classical music in China and in the United States and have returned to Beijing to perform; others are self-taught. Many are young; some have been around before and after Mao. All are devoted to the music. In Beijing, saxophonist Fan Shengqi is by all accounts the most enduring jazz musician who performed before, during and after Mao. His involvement in the contemporary Chinese music scene is reflected in his participation in China's first guitar festival, held in August 2005 on what is described as “scenic Hainan Island” located in the South China Sea.

The True North Strong: Contemporary Chinese Studies in Canada

1995 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 851-866
Author(s):  
Graham E. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Casual Observer ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

To a casual observer, Canada may appear to be very much like the United States, to which it is attached by a long and undefended land border. A more detailed inspection, however, indicates that Canada is different. The differences can be seen in many aspects, and have coloured the development of academic disciplines and the character of intellectual debate, including studies of China.

Returning life to society: Biography as a narrative of the whole

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-251
Author(s):  
Bingxiang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life History ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Biography is a unique form of narration in ethnography and historiography. This article attempts to position Lin Yueh-Hwa’s works within the context of sociological and anthropological debate since the 1920s. In doing so it explores the potential uses of the biographical method in the study of Chinese history and society. Although Lin was a bearer of the biographical tradition of Chinese literature and history, his works were also profoundly influenced by both the narrative method of life history in the United States and social-life studies in France. In addition to these two influential biographical traditions, anthropologists in Britain developed the genealogical approach to investigating sacred kingship. This study regards these three traditions of individual-life biography, social-life studies and genealogy as a “biographic triad”. Relevant works in contemporary Chinese sociology and anthropology are reviewed within this framework. It is conceivable that phenomenological description alone is insufficient when applying the biographical method. One must take into consideration Chinese centralized power and the overall social structure of China. Only by placing “life biography” against society’s ever-changing processes can one turn individual stories into powerful narratives depicting the whole structure of Chinese social life.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Chinese Diaspora in the U.S. on the American View of China

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Jan Misiuna
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Chinese Exclusion ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Exclusion Act ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Second World

The first Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s and initially their presence did not result in improving the American perception of China. On the contrary – intense immigration from China led to the development of racist and xenophobic attitudes towards the Chinese (Yellow Peril), which culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. During the Second World War, China became an important ally of the United States, which triggered a succession of changes to laws barring Chinese immigration (Magnuson Act). Contemporary Chinese Americans – particularly Taiwanese Americans – can be located in the upper spheres of immigrant population: they are considered to be a well-educated and affluent group. This paper presents the historical and contemporary socio-economic characteristics of the Sino-American population set against a historical and legal background.

Notes from the Editors, October 2020

2020 ◽  
pp. c2-64
Author(s):  
_ Editors
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Marxist Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review, "China 2020," is the product of a long period of cooperation with critical Chinese Marxist scholars. This has resulted in an extensive series of articles on contemporary Chinese social and economic relations since 2012, to which most of the authors in the present issue have previously contributed. It takes on a special significance due to the growing conflict between the United States and China, making critical Marxist analysis in this area all the more important.

scholarly journals Intra-Asian infrastructures of Chinese birth tourism: agencies’ operations in China and Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean H. Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This chapter focuses on the development of the Chinese birth tourism industry and its intra-Asian operations. It discusses Chinese birth tourism away from the United States. The chapter focuses on existing regional linkages, such as long-standing but small-scale informal birth tourism from Taiwan and a brief surge of Chinese birth tourism to Hong Kong in the 2000s, that buttress China–United States birth tourism networks. It also focuses on birth tourism agencies' operations in China and Taiwan. The chapter examines the emerging literature by providing empirics on Chinese birth tourism agencies' operations and, to a lesser extent, prospective birth tourists' experiences at these agencies. The chapter focuses on intra-Asian infrastructures of contemporary Chinese birth tourism industry, describing separately for birth agencies in China and Taiwan their modes of recruitment, clientele demographics and scales of operations. It demonstrates, contemporary ethnic Chinese birth tourism to the United States is overwhelmingly commercialised and draws its clientele from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The Current State of Contemporary Chinese Studies in Japan

1986 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 505-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryosei Kokubun
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Japanese Version ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Current State ◽  
Chinese Studies ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
The U.S

Sino-Japanese ties have been expanding since formal diplomatic relations were established in 1972. Recently, both governments organized a China–Japan Friendship Committee for the 21 st Century, a Sino-Japanese version of the U.S.–Japan Wiseman's Group, which has played an important role in cementing links between the United States and Japan through the years. The new China–Japan Committee is jointly headed by Tadao Ishikawa, president of Keio University and a scholar of Chinese politics, and by Wang Zhaoguo, the 45 yearold head of the general office of the Chinese Communist Party. This committee holds annual meetings to explore Sino-Japanese relations in depth. In addition, since 1982, a China–Japan Civilian Meeting has been convened, alternately in Tokyo and Beijing, bringing together over 100 Chinese and Japanese businessmen, politicians and scholars to survey Sino-Japanese relations. Finally, since 1980, at an annual ministerial meeting, the top ministers of each government review their activities.

Contesting Chineseness

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Ang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Chinese Migration ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Chinese Subjects

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 investigates this puzzle and details how ethnic Chinese subjects negotiate their identities in an age of contemporary Chinese migration and China’s ascent.

scholarly journals Review Essay: What Happened to the Study of China in Comparative Politics?

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Eve Reny
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Politics ◽  
The Core ◽  
China's Rise ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Study Of Chinese Politics

In 1986, Kenneth Lieberthal observed that the study of China in the United States had had little effect on the evolution of political science. Over twenty years later, its impact on the core debates in comparative politics seems to have been no more significant. Why have some of the most influential books in the study of contemporary Chinese politics not been significant in the discipline of comparative politics? Based on a quantitative overview of forty-two comparative politics syllabi, my argument is twofold. First, China scholarship has isolated the study of Chinese politics by primarily publishing in area journals, building analyses around debates exclusive to Chinese politics, and generating knowledge with limited contemplation of its potential for generalization outside China. Second, comparative politics seems to have been caught in a “democratic prism,” which has impeded scholars' ability to adapt some of the debates to empirical changes associated with China's rise and development.

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