Contesting Chineseness

Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants investigates this puzzle and details how ethnic Chinese subjects negotiate their identities in an age of contemporary Chinese migration and China's ascent.

Sylvia Ang is Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University. She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore from 2018 to 2020. Her research draws on her engagement with the superdiverse cities she has lived in (Singapore and Melbourne, Australia) to analyse migration and ethnic relations, class, gender and racism.

Acknowledgements, Introduction: Contesting Chineseness, 1 Who's Chinese?, 2 Not the lower classes, 3 A better Chinese man, 4 When a Chinese does not speak Chinese, 5 In the new Chinatown, Conclusion: A hierarchy of Chineseness, Index