The transcultural streams of Chinese Canadian identities /edited by Jessica Tsui-yan Li.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Highlighting the geopolitical and economic circumstances that have prompted migration from Hong Kong and mainland China to Canada, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities examines the Chinese Canadian community as a simultaneously transcultural, transnational, and domestic social and cultural formation. Essays in this volume argue that Chinese Canadians, a population that has produced significant cultural imprints on Canadian society, must create and constantly redefine their identities as manifested in social science, literary, and historical spheres. These perpetual negotiations reflect social and cultural ideologies and practices and demonstrate Chinese Canadians' recreations of their self-perception, self-expression, and self-projection in relation to others. Contextualized within larger debates on multicultural society and specific Chinese Canadian cultural experiences, this book considers diverse cultural presentations of literary expression, the "model minority" and the influence of gender and profession on success and failure, the gendered dynamics of migration and the growth of transnational ("astronaut") families in the 1980s, and inter-ethnic boundary crossing. Taking an innovative approach to the ways in which Chinese Canadians adapt to and construct the Canadian multicultural mosaic, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities explores various patterns of Chinese cultural interchanges in Canada and how they intertwine with the community's sense of disengagement and belonging."--

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes about Chinese Romanization; Introduction: Interdiciplinary Approaches to Transcultural Negotiations of Chinese Canadian Identities; Part one -- Migrant Transcultural Negotiations; 1 The Rise and Fall of the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1950; 2 Transcultural Poetics: Hong Kong Canadian Identities in Yasi's Works; 3 Psychogeography and Cultural Negotiation in the Poetic Imagination of Hong Kong Canadian Identity; Part two -- Negotiating Success and Failure

4 Identities in Public: Cultural Translation in Jan Wong's Out of the Blue5 Migration, Gender Relations, and the Negotiation of Identity among Chinese Professional Immigrant Women in Canada; 6 Group Boundaries and Immigrant Income; Part three -- Negotiating Adaptation, Belonging, and Co-construction; 7 Ethnic Identity and the Cultural Translation of the Marketplace: The Supermarket Exemplar; 8 Denaturalizing Canadian Literature: Fred Wah and Recapitulation; 9 The Dynamics of Cultural Identity of Chinese in Toronto, 1960s-2010s

Conclusion: Future Directions for the Study of Chinese Canadian IdentitiesContributors; Index

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