How Chinese Are You? Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture

Name: How Chinese Are You? Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture
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ISBN: 9781479894635

ISBN-10: 147989463X

ISBN-13: 9781479894635

Edition: 2015

Authors: Andrea Louie

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Chinese adoption is often viewed as creating new possibilities for the formation of multicultural, cosmopolitan families. For white adoptive families, it is an opportunity to learn more about China and Chinese culture, as many adoptive families today try to honor what they view as their children’s “birth culture.” However, transnational, transracial adoption also presents challenges to families who are trying to impart in their children cultural and racial identities that they themselves do not possess, while at the same time incorporating their own racial, ethnic, and religious identities. Many of their ideas are based on assumptions about how authentic Chinese and Chinese Americans…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English