China in Argentina : ethnographies of a global expansion / Máximo Badaró, editor.
Badaró, Máximo, editor.
2022
DS740.5.A7 C55 2022
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Title China in Argentina : ethnographies of a global expansion / Máximo Badaró, editor.
ISBN 9783030924225 (electronic bk.)
303092422X (electronic bk.)
9783030924218
3030924211
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92422-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-92422-5 doi
Call Number DS740.5.A7 C55 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48/251082
Summary This is the first book to shed light on the growing presence, influence and expansion of China in the daily life of Argentina. While most previous academic studies focus on the geopolitical and macroeconomics dimensions of the relations between Argentina and China, this book shows at a micro-social level the multiple facets of the economic, political and social influence of China in Argentina. The book presents ethnographic studies of encounters of actors and negotiation of identities from Argentina and China in companies, schools, restaurants, hospitals, districts, public and private institutions in Argentina. Themes discussed in the ethnographies include: identity struggle and strategic uses of culture in Buenos Aires' s Chinatown; teaching Chinese as the first foreign language or teaching it as a heritage language in a bilingual school; the contested production of images of Chinese authenticity in Chinese restaurants; the connections and contestations between so-called "Western medicine" and so-called "Chinese Traditional Medicine" and the conflictive relations between Chinese expatriate bosses of Chinese state-owned enterprises and their Argentinean employees. Maximo Badaro is Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina) and Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM, Argentina), where he is also the director of the Bachelor Degree Program in Social Anthropology.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 16, 2022).
Added Author Badaró, Máximo, editor.
Series Historical and cultural interconnections between Latin America and Asia.
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Chapter 1 Introduction. China in Argentina: ethnographic perspectives of a global expansion
Chapter 2 "Today we are all Chinatown" : identity struggle and strategic uses of culture in Buenos Aires' Chinatown
Chapter 3 "The language of the future" : Mandarin Chinese as cultural identity and merchandise in an Argentine-Chinese bilingual school in Buenos Aires
Chapter 4 "This is not Chinese food" : relocation, authenticity and global cuisines in Chinese restaurants in Buenos Aires
Chapter 5 "Chinese medicine is not just acupuncture" : the experience of Chinese immigrants in the Argentinian healthcare system
Chapter 6 Avoiding encounters: an ethnographic analysis of Sino-Argentine business relationships in Argentinas oil industry
Chapter 7 "Now is all about China" : recent developments in Chinese Studies in Argentina.

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