EAN: 9781461421306

THE CHINESE FACE IN AUSTRALIA - LUCILLE LOK-SUN...

The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of
two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels  focusing on
deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of 'Chineseness.' At a social and experiential
level  it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience  negotiate
and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid
identity construction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants and to the
sojourner's sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in the debate over Chinese
diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-term migrant communities. Their
experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and
integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over
successive generations. Based on ethnography  fieldwork and participant observation on
multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three
to six generations  this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification.

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