Chineseness in Chile : shifting representations during the twenty-first century / Maria Montt Strabucchi, Carol Chan, María Elvira Ríos.
Montt Strabucchi, María, author.; Chan, Carol, author.; Ríos, María Elvira, author.
2022
F3285.C55 S77 2022
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Title Chineseness in Chile : shifting representations during the twenty-first century / Maria Montt Strabucchi, Carol Chan, María Elvira Ríos.
Author Montt Strabucchi, María, author.
ISBN 9783030839666 (electronic bk.)
3030839664 (electronic bk.)
9783030839659
3030839656
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83966-6
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-83966-6 doi
Call Number F3285.C55 S77 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.883051
Summary This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, images, and intentions of diverse actors who contribute to stereotyping or problematizing Chineseness in Chile. The authors argue that in general, representing and perceiving China or Chineseness as the Other is part of a broader cultural and political strategy for various stakeholders to articulate Chile as either a Western country or one that is becoming-Western. The authors trace the evolution of the symbolic role that China and Chineseness play in defining racial, gendered, and class aspects of Chilean national social imaginary. In doing so, they challenge a common idea that Chineseness is a stable signifier and the simplistic perception of the ethnic Chinese as the unassimilable foreigner within the nation. In response, the authors call for a postmigrant approach to understanding identities and Chilean society beyond stubborn Orient-Occident and us-them dichotomies. Maria Montt Strabucchi is Assistant Professor in the Institute of History and Member of the Center for Asian Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Carol Chan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile. Maria Elvira Rios is a researcher in the Institute of Aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 28, 2021).
Added Author Chan, Carol, author.
Ríos, María Elvira, author.
Series Studies of the Americas.
Available in Other Form CHINESENESS IN CHILE.
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1. Introduction: Chineseness in Chile
Introduction
Historical Background: China and the Ethnic Chinese in Chile
Situating Orientalism in Chile
Historical Imaginary of China in Chile
Overview of the Book Chapters
References
2. The Enduring Duality of Chineseness
China/Chineseness as Threat or Opportunity
Polemical Discussions About China in the Twenty-First Century: Threat or Opportunity?
China as the New Imperialist Threat
China as a Door to New Opportunities for Chile

Conclusion: China as a Double-Edged Sword or Mirror
References
3. Dynamics of In/Comprehensibility
The Silent or Incomprehensible Stranger
Comprehending the Ethnic Chinese: Toward Greater Understanding and Distinguishing Between "Chinos"
Problematizing Chineseness as Other/Incomprehensible
Conclusion: Toward Chineseness as Potential or Radical Openness
References
4. Racialized Femininities and Masculinities, and the Queerness of the Ethnic Chinese
Orientalizing Ethnic Chinese/Asian Women
Undesirable or Asexual Chinese Masculinities

The Impossibility of Miscegenation
Queering Gender/Sexual Binaries Through Chineseness
Conclusion
References
5. Marca Chile, Marca China
The Interdependence of Marca Chile and Marca China
(Re)Branding China in Chile
When Marca Chile is Actually Marca China: The Global Raspberry Scandal
Conclusion: Toward Incorporating Chineseness into Marca Chile
References
6. Many-Faced Orientalism: Racism and Xenophobia in a Time of the Novel Coronavirus Covid-19
The Many Faces of Orientalism During the Pandemic
The Ethnic Chinese/Asian as "Elsewhere."

The Ethnic Chinese (and Chinese Products) as Threat
China and Chinese Values as Anti-democratic
Experiences and Responses in Chile to Anti-Chinese/Asian Racism
Concluding Remarks
References
7. Conclusion
References
Annex
References
Index

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