Is China a homeland, basis of identity, a source of tradition and historical capital, or an imagination imposed one me?
One more month to go before submission.
All good things to come, I trust.
An 'overseas Chinese' student's journey into discovering the imagination of China.
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These are the chronicles on the journey of understanding the imagination of China by overseas Chinese. Well, that's me. 3rd (I think, someone correct me.) generation overseas-born Chinese, Teochew, with ancestors from Chao An 'zheng' (town) in Guangdong 'shen' (province) in China, born Singaporean. English educated, brought up with Western lenses on viewing the world.
Now rediscovering his roots amidst China's massive nationalist soft power world media vehicles whilst based in Melbourne. And realising that Chinese is a huge misnomer unable to represent the vast divides, ethnicities and stratas of China's 'official' list of 55+1 peoples (1 being the overwhelming han majority).
This blog mainly collects articles and information from news sources based in three countries - China, Singapore and Australia; and present them with a palatable, easy-to-read synopsis.
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- 60th Anniversary (3)
- Al Jazeera (1)
- American Born Chinese Blog (1)
- Army Times (1)
- AsiaOne (5)
- Australia (7)
- BBC (1)
- Beijing OIympics (7)
- Cambodia (1)
- China Blue (1)
- Chinese overseas (3)
- Confucius (3)
- Culture (33)
- Danwei (1)
- Dialects (1)
- Economics (3)
- Environment (6)
- Foreign aid (2)
- global times (5)
- Han (1)
- Health (2)
- India (1)
- International Relations (36)
- Internet (1)
- japan (1)
- Mapping Feelings (1)
- Media (10)
- Migrant Workers (2)
- military (1)
- Muslim-majority north-west (1)
- Napoleon (1)
- Online Citizen (1)
- People's Daily (1)
- Politics (16)
- Quotable quotes (2)
- Random (1)
- Research Question. (1)
- Reuters (1)
- Russia (1)
- Singapore (12)
- space (1)
- Spongebob China (1)
- Straits Times (15)
- Strategy (9)
- Taiwan (2)
- Tao Guang Yang Hui (韬光养晦) (2)
- Tea Houses (1)
- Technology (1)
- The Chinese Identity (3)
- The construction of Chinese and Non-Chinese identities (1)
- The Malaysian Insider (2)
- Tiananmen 20th anniversary (4)
- Tiananmen security (1)
- Tibet (5)
- Times of India (1)
- timor (1)
- Video (1)
- Wall Street Journal (1)
Followers
Posts
Readings
- Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World (Kurlantzick, 2007)
- China and the Chinese Overseas (Wang, 2003)
- China Off Center - Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (Blum & Jensen, 2002)
- China Wakes (Kristof & Wudunn, 1995)
- China's Transformations(Jensen & Weston, 2007)
- Chinas Unlimited (Lee, 2003)
- China’s Security Interests in the 21st Century (Ong, 2007)
- Chinese among others - Emigration in Modern Times (Kuhn, 2008)
- Chinese Kinship (Chao, 1983)
- Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making (Feng, 2007)
- Dialetic of the Chinese Revolution (Ci, 1994)
- Don't Leave Home - Migration and Chinese (Wang, 2001)
- Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy - Past, Present and Future (Swaine & Tellis, 2000)
- Kinship, Contract, Community & State (Cohen, 2005)
- Re Orient - Change in Asian Societies (Vervoorn, 2006)
- The Overseas Chinese of South East Asia (Witzel & Rae, 2008)
- Understanding China and India - Security Implications for the United States and the World (Lal, 2006)
Big Word Bank
- Charm Offensive
- Convulsive Rise
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural Geography
- Multi-polar World
- Political Capital
- Public Diplomacy
Communicate.
About Me
- ferylbob
- I threw my heart into the open sea. feryl. 29 winters past. Musician and Wandering Planet. Loves E.P.I.C, the freeform band he has been playing with since 2002. Loves his family. Loves reading about hyperspace and still dreams of somehow landing his first million on the sunny island set in the sea by the time he's 30. Aries.
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