Research Catalog

Title

Eurasian : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 / Emma Jinhua Teng.

Author

Teng, Emma.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

xvii, 331 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chines-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities. Teng argues that Eurasians were not universally marginalized during this era, as is often asserted. Rather, Eurasians often found themselves facing contradictions between exclusionary and inclusive ideologies of race and nationality, and between overt racism and more subtle forms of prejudice that were counterbalanced by partial acceptance and privilege. By tracing the stories of mixed and transnational families during an earlier era of globalization, Eurasian also demonstrates to students, faculty, scholars, and researchers how canges in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these familes to reclaim their dual heritage with pride."--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Chinese University of Hong Kong Art Museum
• Chinese Americans > Ethnic identity > History
• Chinese American families > Social conditions
• Interracial marriage > United States
• Chinese Americans > China > Ethnic identity > History
• Chinese American families > China > Social conditions
• Interracial marriage > China
• Chinese Americans > China > Hong Kong > Ethnic identity > History
• Chinese American families > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions
• Interracial marriage > China > Hong Kong

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.

Contents

A Canton Mandarin weds a Connecticut Yankee : Chinese-western intermarriage becomes a "problem" -- Mae Watkins becomes a "real Chinese wife" : marital expatriation, migration, and transracial hybridity -- "A problem for which there is no solution" : the new hybrid brood and the specter of degeneration in New York's Chinatown -- "Productive of good to both sides" : the Eurasian as solution in Chinese utopian visions of racial harmony -- Reversing the sociological lens : putting Sino-American "mixed bloods" on the miscegenation map -- The "peculiar cast" : navigating the American color line in the era of Chinese exclusion -- On not looking Chinese : Chineseness as consent or descent? -- "No gulf between a Chan and a smith amongst us" : Charles Graham Anderson's manifesto for Eurasian unity in interwar Hong Kong -- Coda : Elsie Jane comes home to rest -- Epilogue.

ISBN

• 9780520276260 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520276264 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520276277 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520276272 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2012049224
• 40022616996

OCLC

• 823473395
• SCSB-13663105

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library