194 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study of first generation Chinese youth and their parents who have immigrated to Houston reveals the ways in which this group resists assimilation into the dominant Western milieu and instead accommodates itself as a paracommunity with the culture of its host city. Chinese parents counter Western influence on their children by enrolling them in Chinese language schools, having them... Read more
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Same and -- Introduction -- Evolution of Chinese -- What is Valued? -- Historical Setting: Beginnings of the Chinese Diaspora -- Why a Chinese School? And Why Evergreen? -- Hermeneutics -- The Other: Informant or Anthropologist? -- Philosophical Thought and Religion -- The Ghost of China Past -- A Conscious Choice of -- Identity Claimed—Not Merely Inherited -- Do We Care What People Think of Us? -- The Evergreen Youth Club -- Parents Trying to Raise Chinese Kids in the West -- Conclusion -- Are You a Different Chinese in Houston? -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
Biography
Elionne L. W Belden,
