Chinese communities of Paris: Integration, preserving identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-163
Author(s):  
Alexander Gordon ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
French Society ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Southern Vietnam ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Social Heterogeneity

The article examines specifics of integration of the Chinese diaspora into French society. The author identifies several Chinese communities, differing by the place of origin, such as «Indo-Chinese community» (from Southern Vietnam), «Wenzhou» (county in Zhejiang province), «Dongbei» (from the region of the same name of the PRC). The study reveals the influence of «push» («exodus» from Vietnam) and «pull» to the country of immigration («Wenzhou» and «Dongbei» communities) factors. The paper investigates social heterogeneity of the diaspora, from the «artisan proletariat» and small merchants to wholesalers and financiers. The author analyzes common features originating in cultural identity. The importance of ethno-cultural characteristics in the integration of the Chinese and their success (as a «model minority») is emphasized. The paper discusses the nature of anti-Chinese sentiments in French society (ressentiment). Using the case study of the Chinese diaspora, the author raises the question of the possibility of multicultural integration in contemporary France.

Exploring Community Festivals In The Context of The Chinese Diaspora

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanyi Nicole YU ◽  
Judith MAIR ◽  
Andy LEE ◽  
Faith ONG
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
External Development

This exploratory case study investigated the organisers’ rationale for hosting a community festival for the Chinese diaspora and takes as its context the 2018 Brisbane Chinese Festival held in Queensland, Australia. Diaspora groups are in a paradoxical situation as they hold a dual identity, with a sense of belonging to their homeland and host land simultaneously, and thus festivals aimed at diasporic communities are culturally complex. Data were collected from semistructured interviews with 15 Chinese community leaders living in Queensland who were festival organisers. The results show that organisers had reasons for both community internal and external development. The internal focused reasons include reinforcing Chinese community identities and increasing community solidarity and cohesiveness among different individuals and groups. The externally focused reasons include building a united image of the Chinese community, along with fostering social harmony between the minority diaspora groups and the dominant populations in a multicultural society. The research also demonstrated that defining and characterising the Chinese diaspora, which is acknowledged to be super-diverse, was highly complex, but that cultural identity was the key way in which members of the Chinese diaspora define themselves. Suggestions for future research using social capital as a potential theoretical framework are provided.

The Politics of a Memory Wound: Norwegian Exceptionalism and the Trauma of July 22, 2011

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
E. Johanna Hartelius ◽  
Kaitlyn E. Haynal
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
National Imaginary ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Youth Camp ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Dual Case ◽  
Media Event

Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became embroiled in a conflict over commemorative ethics. The memorial initially selected in an international contest, Memory Wound by Jonas Dahlgren, drew opposition from victims’ families and local residents for its severe impact on the natural landscape. Plans for installation were cancelled in 2017. This controversy, we submit, must be contextualized in relation to the Norwegian justice system’s handling of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator whose criminal proceedings were kept relatively secluded. We demonstrate how the design of Memory Wound and the suppression of Breivik’s publicity reflect a symbolic logic traceable to a national imaginary of Norwegian exceptionalism. By interpretively aligning the use of negative space in Memory Wound with the muting of Breivik as a media event, we investigate the prescriptive force of symbols to inculcate world views. Specifically, we attend to the foreclosure of “prosthetic memory,” which through media circulation allows people to engage with memory that is not primarily theirs. We acknowledge the possibility of empathy across difference that Landsberg ascribes to prosthetic memory; however, we insist that the circumstances under which solidarity might be rejected must be considered. With a dual case study, we offer a perspective on enduring assumptions about cultural identity and the rise of rightwing extremism in Northern Europe.

Cultural Identity and Continuity - Case Study of Authentic Conservation of Xi'an Bei Yuan Men Historic District

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1840-1846
Author(s):  
Hong Yan Li ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Authentic Development ◽  
Corresponding Analysis

This paper discusses cultural identity and continuity of historic district based on the principle of authenticity in conservation field. The objective is to find out appropriate solutions for a historic district and to keep its special cultural value. It develops corresponding analysis in both physical aspects and cultural aspects, emphasizing the living feature of a historic district. The author advocates that it is significant to keep local residents living in the district since they are the cultural carriers and the core to conserve their cultural identity. The paper advocates an authentic development mode in historic district.

Chronic neuroangiostrongyliasis: case study of chronic presentations in Hawaii

Parasitology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Bernard C. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Long Term Outcome ◽  
Residual Symptoms ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Muscular Pain

Abstract This paper describes chronic features of neuroangiostrongyliasis (NAS), a long-term outcome of the disease that has not been adequately described. Current and past literature is predominantly limited to acute manifestations of NAS, and mention of chronic, ongoing clinical symptoms is usually limited to brief notes in a discussion of severe cases. This study investigated the long-term outcomes in ten individuals who were diagnosed with acute neuroangiostrongyliasis in Hawaii between 2009 and 2017. The study demonstrates a significant number of persons in Hawaii sustain residual symptoms for many years, including troublesome sensory paresthesia (abnormal spontaneous sensations of skin experienced as ‘burning, pricking, pins and needles’; also described as allodynia or hyperesthesia) and extremity muscle pains. As a consequence, employment and economic hardships, domestic relocations, and psychological impairments affecting personal relationships occurred. The study summarizes common features of chronic disease, sensory paresthesia and hyperesthesia, diffuse muscular pain, insomnia, and accompanying emotional distress; highlights the frequently unsuccessful endeavours of individuals struggling to find effective treatment; proposes pathogenic mechanisms responsible for prolonged illness including possible reasons for differences in disease presentation in Hawaii compared to Southeast Asia.

scholarly journals The city as a theatre of characters. John Hejduk’s Masques

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Luca Cardani
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Theoretical Design ◽  
In Series ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
General Work ◽  
Different Parts

The architectural work of John Hejduk (1929-2000) is marked by theoretical-design research, collected in series with titles and periods. Among these series the one entitled Masques, developed since about 1979, can be considered the nucleus of his research on the architecture of the city and the place of origin of his language of construction later developed in his realized buildings. This paper analyses the dense network of references and analogies established by Hejduk to create his Masques, trying to fix its origin in the idea of the city as a theatre of characters composed of architecture. Starting from the name chosen for the title of this series, the paper tries to trace the threads that lead from the general work of the various projects of the Masques series, to the reflections and ideas that produced it. Then, it comes back again to the observation of architecture and of a case study (Security, 1989), to understand and explain its meaning and the compositional methods involved into the process of genesis of form. Through the entire work named Masques, and its recognizable link with the buildings and installation realized around the world, Hejduk has built an archive of architectural prototypes ready to construct different parts of the city, thus highlighting the strong connection that his work establishes with reality in order "to conceive it, represent it and finally realize it".

scholarly journals URBAN MODELLING WITH TYPOLOGICAL APPROACH. CASE STUDY: MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 617-620
Author(s):  
A. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
3D Modeling ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Urban Modelling ◽  
Typological Approach ◽  
Three Dimensional Models

In three-dimensional models of urban historical reconstruction, missed contextual architecture faces difficulties because it does not have much written references in contrast to the most important monuments. This is the case of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico during the Colonial Era (1542-1810), which has lost much of its heritage. An alternative to offer a hypothetical view of these elements is a typological - parametric definition that allows a 3D modeling approach to the most common features of this heritage evidence.

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