Chineseness in Chile : shifting representations during the twenty-first century /

Chineseness in Chile : shifting representations during the twenty-first century /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Montt Strabucchi, María, author.
Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022] ©2022
Description:	xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Studies of the Americas Studies of the Americas.
Subject:	Chinese -- Chile -- Social conditions. Assimilation (Sociology) -- Chile. National characteristics, Chilean. Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Chile. Assimilation (Sociology) Chinese -- Social conditions. Ethnic relations. International relations. National characteristics, Chilean. Stereotypes (Social psychology) Chile -- Relations -- China. China -- Relations -- Chile. Chile -- Ethnic relations. Chile. China.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12715966

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Other authors / contributors:	Chan, Carol, author. R̕os, Mar̕a Elvira, author.
ISBN:	9783030839659 3030839656 9783030839666 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, images, and intentions of diverse actors who contribute to stereotyping or problematizing Chineseness in Chile. The authors argue that in general, representing and perceiving China or Chineseness as the Other is part of a broader cultural and political strategy for various stakeholders to articulate Chile as either a Western country or one that is becoming-Western. The authors trace the evolution of the symbolic role that China and Chineseness play in defining racial, gendered, and class aspects of Chilean national social imaginary. In doing so, they challenge a common idea that Chinese as the unassimilable foreigner within the nation. In response, the authors call for a postmigrant approach to understanding identities and Chilean society beyond stubborn Orient-Occident and us-them dichotomies--back cover.
Other form:	ebook version : 9783030839666

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Chineseness in Chile
2. The enduring duality of Chineseness
3. Dynamics of in/comprehensibility
4. Racialized femininities and masculinities, and the queerness of the ethnic Chinese
5. Marca Chile, Marca China
6. Many-faced orientalism: racism and xenophobia in a time of the novel coronavirus Covid-19
7. Conclusion
Annex
Index.