Interdisciplinary Approaches to British Chinese Cultures

This interdisciplinary volume situates British Chinese cultures and identities at the centre of contemporary discourses that negotiate the complex entanglements between diasporic communities and belongings, migration and transculturality, representation and plurality. The six parts of this book focus on British Chinese agency, voices, and cultural production, shedding light on resistance to racist 'othering' and the complexities of self-definition. At their core, the chapters discuss notions of transnationalism, immigration, and national identity, British Chinese Christianity, the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, (in)visibility and representation, mediations of cultural identity in community magazines as well as literary renditions of (post-)migrant British Chinese identities. Bringing together contributions from fields as diverse as history, sociology, theology, heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, this volume aims to diversify the understanding of what it means to be 'British Chinese' and extends existing conversations in and beyond British Chinese studies into the 2020s.

Interrogates British Chinese cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries from an interdisciplinary perspective The first volume engaging with British Chinese cultures since the watershed moment of the COVID-19 pandemic Foregrounds and extends existing discourses on British Chinese agency, voices, and cultural production

Autorentext

Judith Neder is Research Associate in British Cultural Studies at TU Dresden, Germany. Her doctoral thesis studies narratives of childhood and coming of age in contemporary British Chinese literature. She is the co-editor (with Eva-Maria Windberger) of the forthcoming volume Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media (Palgrave Macmillan).

Eva-Maria Windberger is a Postdoctoral Researcher in English Studies at the University of Luxembourg, where she investigates (trans)cultural identity and belonging in British East and South East Asian theatre. She is the author of The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell's Novels (2023) and co-editor (with Judith Neder) of Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Klappentext

An edited collection that exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship the research contained herein presents a wide-ranging and critical exploration of British Chinese cultures. It serves as a significant landmark in the research on this racialised community that reflects on British Chinese history as an integral part of culture and society in the UK.

Dr Wing-Fai Leung, Reader in Cultural and Media Industries, King's College London, UK

This interdisciplinary volume situates British Chinese cultures and identities at the centre of contemporary discourses that negotiate the complex entanglements between diasporic communities and belongings, migration and transculturality, representation and plurality. The six parts of this book focus on British Chinese agency, voices, and cultural production, shedding light on resistance to racist 'othering' and the complexities of self-definition. At their core, the chapters discuss notions of transnationalism, immigration, and national identity, British Chinese Christianity, the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, (in)visibility and representation, mediations of cultural identity in community magazines as well as literary renditions of (post-)migrant British Chinese identities. Bringing together contributions from fields as diverse as history, sociology, theology, heritage studies, cultural and literary studies, this volume aims to diversify the understanding of what it means to be 'British Chinese' and extends existing conversations in and beyond British Chinese studies into the 2020s.

Judith Neder isResearch Associate in British Cultural Studies at TU Dresden, Germany. Her doctoral thesis studies narratives of childhood and coming of age in contemporary British Chinese literature. She is the co-editor (with Eva-Maria Windberger) of the forthcoming volume Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media (Palgrave Macmillan).

Eva-Maria Windberger is a Postdoctoral Researcher in English Studies at the University of Luxembourg, where she investigates (trans)cultural identity and belonging in British East and South East Asian theatre. She is the author of The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell's Novels (2023) and co-editor (with Judith Neder) of Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Inhalt

Chapter 1: British Chinese History Is British History: Situating Contemporary British Chinese Identities, Belongings, And Plurality.- Part One: Transnationalism, Immigration, And National Identity.- Chapter 2: British Chinese Culture And Identity: From The Postwar Years To The Early 2000s.- Chapter 3: Understanding British Chinese Identity Through Banal Practices In Everyday Life: Blended Language And Food Culture.- Part Two: British Chinese Christianity.- Chapter 4: British Immigration Policies And British Chinese Christianity.- Chapter 5: The Scattered Family Of The British Hong Kong Christian Diaspora: Post-Traumatic Journeys In The Early 2020s.- Part Three: Perspectives On The COVID-19 Pandemic And Beyond: Trauma And Community.- Chapter 6: The COVID We Remember.- Chapter 7: 'I Feel Like A Bird In A Cage:' East Asian Parents' Experience Of The COVID-19 Pandemic In The UK.- Part Four: In/Visibility And Representation .- Chapter 8: The Cultural Politics Of In/Visibility: Contesting 'British Chineseness' In The Arts.- Chapter 9: Chinese Artists And The English Countryside: Chiang Yee, Li Yuan-Chia, And Jamie Lau.- Part Five: Voicing Identity In Community Magazines.- Chapter 10: Chinese Student Responses To Yellow Peril Fears And Sinophobia In Britain, 19101930.- Chapter 11: Negotiating 'Chineseness' Through Ethnic Minority Media: Brushstrokes Magazine And The British Chinese Experience.- Part Six: Writing (Post)Migrant Identities And Belonging.- Chapter 12: Writing From The Western Chamber: First-Generation Immigrants And The Primordial Instinct In Xiaolu Guo's Novels.- Chapter 13: Matrilineage And Identity: Helen Tse's Sweet Mandarin (2007) And PP Wong's The Life Of A Banana (2014).