Eurasian : Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943.
Title:
Eurasian : Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943.
Author:
Teng, Emma Jinhua.
ISBN:
9780520957008
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (349 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Part One: Debating Intermarriage -- Prologue to Chapter 1. The Reverend Brown Takes Elizabeth Bartlett Aboard the Morrison -- 1. A Canton Mandarin Weds a Connecticut Yankee: Chinese-Western Intermarriage becomes a "Problem" -- Prologue to Chapter 2. The Merchant with Two Wives -- 2. Mae Watkins Becomes a "Real Chinese Wife": Marital Expatriation, Migration, and Transracial Hybridity -- Part Two: Debating Hybridity -- Prologue to Chapter 3. Quimbo Appo's Patriotic Gesture -- 3. "A Problem for which there is no Solution: The New Hybrid Brood and the Specter of Degeneration in New York's Chinatown -- Prologue to Chapter 4: Madam Sze. Matriarch of a Eurasian Dynasty -- 4. "Productive of Good to both Sides": The Eurasian as Solution in Chinese Utopian Visions of Racial Harmony -- Prologue to Chapter 5. A First Dance Across Shanghai's Color Line -- 5. Reversing the Sociological Lens: Putting Sino-American "Mixed Bloods" on the Miscegenation Map -- Part Three: Claiming Identities -- Prologue to Chapter 6. Harry Hastings: Of Border Crossings and Racial Scrutiny -- 6. The "Peculiar Cast": Navigating the American Color Line in the Era of Chinese Exclusion -- Prologue to Chapter 7. Adventures of a Devoted Son in his Father's Land -- 7. On not Looking Chinese: Chineseness as Consent or Descent? -- Prologue to Chapter 8. Cecile Franking: Of Census Takers and Poets -- 8. "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 -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Personal Names and Terms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 Chinese-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 changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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