Search Results - "Chinese Americans"

Feminist translation equivalence and norms: gender and female alienation in Chinese translation of Chinese American women's literature by Tang, Beibei

Subjects: “…Chinese American Women's Literature…”
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When Tiger Mothers Meet Sugar Sisters: Strategic Representations of Chinese Cultural Elements in Maxine Hong Kingston's and Amy Tan's Works by Huang, Sheng

“…This thesis examines how Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan use Chinese cultural elements as strategies to challenge stereotypes of Chinese Americans in the United States. The project combines literary and cultural studies approaches to explore how these Chinese elements in the two authors’ works interact with mainstream U.S. culture. …”
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A study of imagined Chinese identity formation in Hollywood movies: using Stuart Hall's cultural identity theory by Huang, Heqing

“…This imaginary narrative has led to the positioning of the Chinese as a kind of Orientalist cultural other, to a kind of evil infidel who needs to be saved, and after Asian and Chinese-American directors entered Hollywood, the Chinese or Asian identity began to highlight diversity, hybridity and difference, and was temporarily in a state of negotiated identity in the diaspora depicted by the films. …”
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Mapping Eileen Chang’s novels with a computational analysis of themes and emotions by Ruikai Yuan, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Zheng, Yu

“…This study applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling and sentiment analysis to eight English novels by Chinese-American author Eileen Chang. The research uncovers seven main themes, reflecting Chang’s focus on women’s lives, cultural intersections, and societal changes in 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong. …”
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The fluid and transcultural self: renegotiating the East Asian female identity in The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho by Syamsina Zahurin Shamsuddin, Ida Baizura Bahar

“…This paper examines how the contemporary Chinese-American author Minfong Ho (b. 1951) portrays Dara, the female protagonist of The Clay Marble (1991), in her practice of culture in Cambodian society in order to explore the Western perspective of the East Asian female identity as voiceless, submissive and hypersexual. …”
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Exploring feminist consciousness through music in Eileen Chang’s postcolonial narratives by Ruikai Yuana, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Melissa Shamini Perry, Ruzy Suliza Hashim

“…This article explores how Chinese-American author Eileen Chang portrays the realization of female consciousness in women from post-colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai through music. …”
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Does an Adolescent’s accuracy of recall improve with a second 24-h dietary recall? by Kerr, Deborah, Wright, Janine, Dhaliwal, Satvinder, Boushey, C.

“…Participants (n = 24), were Chinese-American youths aged between 11 and 15 years and lived in a supervised environment as part of a metabolic feeding study. …”
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Resonance and reflection: revealing the philosophical significance of Bright Sheng's “My Other Song” from the concept of I-Ching by Fung Chiat, Loo, Qian, Deng

“…This paper explores the philosophical significance and the illustration of I-Ching concepts that embedded in a solo piano works, “My Other Song,” composed in 2007 by Bright Sheng, a Chinese-American composer and one of the representatives of China's modern “New Wave” of composers. …”
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Diasporic subjectivity and ambivalent positionality in relation to orientalism in selected fiction by Eileen Chang by Qiao, Meng

“…Researchers rarely approach her differently, such as a Chinese American writer or a diasporic writer, as if she had been living in China all the time and writing in Chinese only. …”
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