1st Edition
Diasporic Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transition Ethnicity, Gender and Community (Re)making in the Asia Pacific
Introduction: Chinese Voluntary Associations in the Diaspora: Ethnicity, Gender and the (Re)making of Ancestral Communities
Ningning Chen, Emily Hertzman, and Sylvia Ang
1. From Survivalism to Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Transformations of A Chinese Voluntary Association in New Zealand
Keping Wu and Krista McJarrow-Keller
2. Sometimes “Us”, Other Times “Others”: Identity Politics with Chinese Voluntary Associations in Australia
Yao-Tai Li
3. Negotiating Chineseness in an Age of China’s ‘Rise’: Younger Diaspora’s Engagement with Chinese Voluntary Associations in Singapore
Ningning Chen, Sylvia Ang, and Jingfu Chen
4. Chinese Indonesian Hometown Associations in Singkawang: A Sentimental Construction of Kampung Halaman
Emily Hertzman
5. Between National Identity and Transnational Connections: The Case of a Chinese Temple in Brunei Darussalam
Chang-Yau Hoon and Kaili Zhao
6. Confluences and Contestations: Gender Politics, Grassroots Buddhism and Chinese Voluntary Associations, 1920s-1970s
Ying Ruo Show
7. “Girls Doing a Big Job” in Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Minority and Making Modern Chinese Women Associations in White Australia
Mei-fen Kuo
8. Performative Filiality and Chinese Voluntary Associations in Transnational Commemoration of the Second World War
Jacqueline Zhenru Lin
9. The Chee Kung Tong: A Voluntary Sworn Brotherhood across the Cantonese World
Fredy González
Biography
Ningning Chen is Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Urban Planning and Research Fellow at the Institute of International and Regional Studies, Sun Yat-Sen University. Her research interests span Chinese diaspora, transnationalism and rural-urban development.
Emily Hertzman is a Research Associate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a sociocultural anthropologist focusing on mobilities, identities, religious practices, and politics amongst Chinese Indonesians. She is one of the editors of ConoAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age.
Sylvia Ang is Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, Melbourne Australia. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on migration, ethnic relations and social inequalities. She is the author of Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese migrants.
