Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora

Download or read book Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora written by Sharon K. Hom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.