Mapping Chinese Rangoon : place and nation among the Sino-Burmese

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Label

Mapping Chinese Rangoon : place and nation among the Sino-Burmese

Title remainder

place and nation among the Sino-Burmese

Statement of responsibility

Jayde Lin Roberts

Creator

• Roberts, Jayde Lin

Author

• Roberts, Jayde Lin

Subject

• China
• Chinese
• Chinese -- Burma | Rangoon -- Ethnic identity
• Chinese -- Burma | Rangoon -- History
• Chinese -- Burma | Rangoon -- Social conditions
• Chinese -- Ethnic identity
• Chinese -- Social conditions
• City and town life
• City and town life -- Burma | Rangoon
• Community life
• Community life -- Burma | Rangoon
• Electronic books
• Ethnic neighborhoods
• Ethnic neighborhoods -- Burma | Rangoon
• Ethnic relations
• HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
• History
• Nationalism
• Nationalism - Burma
• Nationalism -- Burma
• Nationalism -- China
• Rangoon (Burma) -- Ethnic relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• Social change
• Social change -- Burma
• Burma
• Burma -- Rangoon

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"One of Southeast Asia's most significant 'overseas Chinese' communities is that of the Hokkien Chinese--Han originally from Fujian Province--who have resided in Rangoon since the colonial era. This ethnography, the first study in English of the history and place of ethnic Chinese in Burmese society, delineates how they have negotiated the rise of nationalism in both China and Burma and the numerous political and economic challenges that have beset their ancestral and adopted homes. Of central importance to the ability of even fourth- and fifth-generation descendants of Chinese to retain distinctive characteristics, while also acquiring hybrid identities, is the organization of the Chinese quarter in Rangoon around Buddhist temples and associated ritual and educational activities. The Chinese in Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of this community and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma (Myanmar) during its emergence from decades of isolation imposed by a repressive military regime. As one of the few scholars able to carry out research during this period of transition, Jayde Roberts is able to provide a nuanced view of the Sino-Burmese and the urban environment of Rangoon"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies