Overseas Chinese Christians in contemporary China: religion, mobility, and belonging
Family -- Place -- Community -- Citizenship.
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publié: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2020]
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| Dans: |
Chinese overseas (volume 16)
Année: 2020 |
| Collection/Revue: | Chinese overseas
volume 16 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
China
/ Christianisme
/ Migration
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
China
Social conditions 1976-2000
B Christians (China) B China Social conditions 2000- B Chinese (Foreign countries) Ethnic identity B China Ethnic relations B Identity (Psychology) Economic aspects (China) B Identity (Psychology) Religious aspects Christianity B Publication universitaire B Aliens (China) |
| Résumé: | Family -- Place -- Community -- Citizenship. "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"-- |
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| Description: | 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 |
| ISBN: | 9004438556 |