...This introductory chapter analyzes the concept of exoticism, tracing its recent re-emergence from the rise of diasporic Chinese modernities and their cultural productions. It also explores the Chinese exotic's manifestation in images of Chinese femininity. By analyzing images from the diaspora...

... is given and it is explained how the history of the development of the huaqiao pattern and the significance of the qiaoxiang perspective will be discussed and expanded upon. In particular it is argued that diaspora and transnational concepts fail to reveal the motivations...

...This chapter analyzes the intimate relationship between the homeland and the diaspora. It first offers a critical overview of Ann On-wah Hui's films to show the centrality of the diaspora in her oeuvre. It then explores the film's representations of homelands (Britain, China, and Japan...

...This chapter continues the focus on the intersection between diaspora and intimacy by exploring the teaching of the film in Australia as part of the political pedagogy of critical multiculturalism. It illustrates how Song of the Exile cultivates a transcultural literacy...

... or Australia and an appreciation of the values and beliefs of those cultures. Simultaneously, they could preserve their Hong Kong culture in part because of the existence of the Chinese diaspora, which figured prominently in the adaptation process. Additive identities are found among returnees...

... of a Nyonya Feminist and Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed: A Remembrance. Both Lim's and Lee's texts seem deeply conscious of how sexual desire mobilizes diaspora, and how diaspora, in turn, informs sexual desire. However, these texts also reveal anxieties of how to narrate sexuality...

... Christian Organization YMCA YWCA Fong Joe Guey China United States Tianhou religion transnationalism migration San Francisco diaspora As Chinese laborers and traders migrated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, they moved with various cultural icons that helped them to cope emotionally...

... accusations known in Abrahamic religions Christianity Judaism Islam Diaspora Jews Muslim Secular Minority groups Rituals Our formula “Respondeo etsi mutabor [I respond although I will be changed]” reminds us that human society has outgrown the stage of mere existence which prevails in nature...

...Chapter 9 explores the East End of London as a place for the conflict and collaboration among the Abrahamic faiths from the nineteenth century into the present. In discussing how diaspora and religion interrelate, the chapter presents two examples of the complexities. One of them is the Anglican...

... of a Holocaust Survivor The Freeman Lemkin Raphael Abrahamic religions Christianity Judaism Islam Diaspora Jews Muslim Secular Minority groups Rituals This chapter discusses tensions between Jews and Muslims concerning issues such as genocide and politics. My own personal and academic experiences have...

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... diaspora identity race Shih-I Hsiung Unexpectedly, he became famous. Occasionally a suggestion becomes important—makes a man completely change his life. ¹ After tea one day in January 1933 with Professor Allardyce Nicoll and his wife, the writer Josephine Calina, Shih-I left...

... anti Chinese Xinning Huiguan emigrant areas qiaoxiang huiguan homebound burial host countries and native places the Tung Wah Coffin Home Hong Kong the institutionalization of charity the charity network of the global Chinese diaspora * This chapter is part of the research project supported...

... Fengling Meisenhelder Edmund W nationalism Chinese religion mining industry Tam Lai Ting Tam Liting Chinese philanthropy higher education in modernity Chinese diaspora Lingnan University Canton Christian College overseas Chinese The new management of the Lingnan University is asking...

... Guangdong New South Wales Australia Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney Cantonese Union Church Fujit Hall Fujitang Shanghai governments Hong Kong Republican period China United States US philanthropic sociability Chinese Australian History Chinese women in diaspora Chinese voluntary organizations...

...Although women were largely absent from male-dominated Chinese community discussions on democratic values, brotherhood, diaspora unity, and Han-identity nationalism, they were not absent from Chinese Australians’ modern social life from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th...

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... Brian Lewis Bernard Qur’an Allah Taji Farouki Suha diaspora Abrahamic religions in age of Gilman Sander Katz Steven Other the Silverstein Paul Baghdadi Jews Bene Menashe Shinlung Cochin Jews of Abrahamic religions boundaries between collaboration among Abrahamic religions Divekar Samuel...