Journal articles: 'American literature Chinese Americans in literature'

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Wang, Xiaotao. "Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 4, no. 2 (May 20, 2020): p122. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v4n2p122.

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Chinese American literature is commonly interpreted as the narrative of the living experiences of Chinese Americans. Under the past nation-state research paradigm, Chinese American literature critics both in China and America are preoccupied with the “assimilation” of immigrants and their descendants in Chinese American literature texts, they argue that Chinese culture is the barrier for the immigrants to be fully assimilated into the mainstream society. But putting Chinese American literature under the context of globalization, these arguments seem inaccurate and out of date. This article examines the transnational practices and emotional attachments in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club to show that the identity in these two works are neither American nor Chinese, but transnational. Thus, Chinese American literature is not the writing of Chinese Americans’ Americanness, but a celebration of their transnationalism.

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Matloff, Robyn, Angela Lee, Roland Tang, and Doug Brugge. "The Obesity Epidemic in Chinese American Youth?: A Literature Review and Pilot Study." AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, and Community 6, no. 1 (2008): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.36650/nexus6.1_31-42_matloffetal.

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Despite nearly 12 million Asian Americans living in the United States and continued immigration, this increasingly substantial subpopulation has consistently been left out of national obesity studies. When included in national studies, Chinese-American children have been grouped together with other Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders or simply as “other,” yielding significantly lower rates of overweight and obesity compared to non-Asians. There is a failure to recognize the ethnic diversity of Asian Americans as well as the effect of acculturation. Results from smaller studies of Chinese American youth suggest that they are adopting lifestyles less Chinese and more Americans and that their share of disease burden is growing. We screened 142 children from the waiting room of a community health center that serves primarily recent Chinese immigrants for height, weight and demographic profile. Body Mass Index was calculated and evaluated using CDC growth charts. Overall, 30.1 percent of children were above the 85th we found being male and being born in the U .S. to be statistically significant for BMI > 85th percentile (p=0.039, p=0.001, respectively). Our results suggest that being overweight in this Chinese American immigrant population is associated with being born in the U.S. A change in public policy and framework for research are required to accurately assess the extent of overweight and obesity in Chinese American children. In particular, large scale data should be stratified by age, sex, birthplace and measure of acculturation to identify those at risk and construct tailored interventions.

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Nindyasmara, Ken Ruri. "NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITY IN DIASPORIC LITERATURE: A CASE STUDY ON AMY TAN’S THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES AND LESLIE MARMON SILKO’S CEREMONY." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 3, no. 1 (July 18, 2019): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v3i1.47838.

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Negotiation of identity has become an important issue because its never-ending process always relates to conflicts, differences and similarities. Chinese Americans and Native Americans are two distinct diasporic communities amongst other ethnic group in the U.S. As minorities, they experience prejudice, discrimination and exclusion from mainstream American culture and society. This research aims to reveal the negotiation of identity of Chinese Americans and Native Americans which is reflected on their literature. Literature is seen as the record of diasporic experience of both ethnic groups. This research is qualitative conducted under Post-Nationalist American Studies. Post-colonial, hegemony and representation theories are used to help the process of data analysis. The primary data is taken from The Hundred Secret Senses written by Amy Tan and Ceremony written by Leslie Marmon Silko. The secondary data are taken from books, journals, and internet sources. The finding of the research shows that Chinese Americans and Native Americans negotiate their identity by choosing or combining competing values. The construction of identity is done through the reenactment of ethnic root and the adaptation to mainstream American cultural values. Sense of belongingness, history and socio-cultural background become the determining factors of identity negotiation. In brief, they construct hybrid identity to survive and to counter American hegemony. Compared to Native Americans, Chinese Americans are more blending to mainstream American culture. However, both novels depict their hybrid identity. Keywords: identity negotiation, diasporic literature, diaspora communities, hegemony, hybrid identity

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Bogue, Ronald. "On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature." Deleuze Studies 7, no. 3 (August 2013): 302–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2013.0113.

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In Dialogues, Deleuze contrasts French and Anglo-American literatures, arguing that the French are tied to hierarchies, origins, manifestos and personal disputes, whereas the English and Americans discover a line of flight that escapes hierarchies, and abandons questions of origins, schools and personal alliances, instead discovering a collective process of ongoing invention, without beginning or determinate end. Deleuze especially appreciates American writers, and above all Herman Melville. What ultimately distinguishes American from English literature is its pragmatic, democratic commitment to sympathy and camaraderie on the open road. For Deleuze, the American literary line of flight is toward the West, but this orientation reflects his almost exclusive focus on writers of European origins. If one turns to Chinese-American literature, the questions of a literary geography become more complex. Through an examination of works by Maxine Hong Kingston and Tao Lin, some of these complexities are detailed.

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Ziqing, Zhang. "A Chinese Encounters Chinese American Literature." Amerasia Journal 34, no. 2 (January 2008): 109–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/amer.34.2.ll67g2h57723473k.

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Kwon, Simona, Deborah Min, and Stella Chong. "Asian American Older Adults and Social Isolation: A Systematic Literature Review." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1051.

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Abstract Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial and ethnic minority group in the United States, whose population is aging considerably. Previous studies indicate that social isolation and loneliness disproportionately affects older adults and predicts greater physical, mental, and cognitive decline. A systematic literature review using PRISMA guidelines was conducted to address this emerging need to understand the scope of research focused on social isolation and loneliness among the disparity population of older Asian Americans. Four interdisciplinary databases were searched: PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and AgeLine; search terms included variations on social isolation, loneliness, Asian Americans, and older adults. Articles were reviewed based on six eligibility criteria: (1) research topic relevance, (2) study participants aged >60 years, (3) Asian immigrants as main participants, (4) conducted in the United States, (5) published between 1995-2019, and (6) printed in the English language. The search yielded 799 articles across the four databases and 61 duplicate articles were removed. Abstracts were screened for the 738 remaining studies, 107 of which underwent full-text review. A total of 56 articles met the eligibility criteria. Synthesis of our review indicates that existing research focuses heavily on Chinese and Korean American immigrant communities, despite the heterogeneity of the diverse Asian American population. Studies were largely observational and employed community-based sampling. Critical literature gaps exist surrounding social isolation and loneliness in Asian American older adults, including the lack of studies on South Asian populations. Future studies should prioritize health promotion intervention research and focus on diverse understudied Asian subgroups.

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Liew, Tat-Siong Benny. "READING WITH YIN YANG EYES: NEGOTIATING THE IDEOLOGICAL DILEMMA OF A CHINESE AMERICAN BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS." Biblical Interpretation 9, no. 3 (2001): 309–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851501317072738.

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AbstractChinese Americans living in today's "postcolonial" North America are often confronted by various forms of neocolonialism. It is no exception for those working within the field of biblical studies. In order to publish and be recognized within the guild, Chinese Americans are often asked to make the "nonchoice" between forsaking their own culture and engaging in the production of some exotic "biblical tourist literature" for others to visit and "sightsee" in times of leisure. This article attempts to expose the oppressive binarism of—in Cornel West's terms—"faceless universalism" and "ethnic chauvinism," and explore how Chinese American Bible scholars may negotiate this ideological dilemma by reading from a marginal site/sight.

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Kangkang, Zhang. "Heart-Stimulating: Chinese Americans in Contemporary Chinese Literature." Chinese Studies in History 41, no. 3 (April 2008): 42–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/csh0009-4633410303.

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Kalibatseva, Zornitsa, and Frederick T. L. Leong. "Cultural Factors, Depressive and Somatic Symptoms Among Chinese American and European American College Students." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 49, no. 10 (September 29, 2018): 1556–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022118803181.

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This study seeks to fill a gap in the existing empirical literature about the relationship between somatic and depressive symptoms and their associations with cultural factors among Chinese American and European American college students. In particular, the study examined how three culturally relevant psychological constructs, self-construal, loss of face, and emotion regulation, associate with depressive and somatic symptoms among Chinese American and European American college students and if they can explain possible group differences in depressive symptoms. The sample consisted of 204 Chinese American and 315 European American college students who completed an online survey. Based on multiple regression analyses, European American students reported higher levels of somatic symptoms on the Patient Health Questionnaire–15 (PHQ-15) than Chinese Americans. There was no initial group difference in depressive symptoms based on Center for Epidemiologic Studies–Depression Scale (CES-D) scores. Correlations between depressive and somatic symptoms, independent and interdependent self-construal, and cognitive reappraisal and independent self-construal were stronger for European Americans than Chinese Americans. Somatic symptoms, loss of face, and expressive suppression were positively associated with depressive symptoms, whereas independent self-construal and cognitive reappraisal were negatively associated with depressive symptoms for both groups. When controlling for gender and somatic symptoms, being Chinese American and male was significantly and positively associated with depressive symptoms measured with the CES-D. These ethnic and gender differences in depressive symptoms were explained by independent self-construal, loss of face, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression. Clinical implications include the incorporation of specific culturally relevant constructs and avoidance of race-, ethnicity-, and gender-based stereotypes to reduce health disparities in depression treatment.

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Leu, Shwuyi. "Exploring Bicultural Experiences: Responding to a Chinese American Young Adult Novel." Language and Literacy 12, no. 1 (October 16, 2010): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/g2mw2s.

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Reading and responding to ethnic literature that is reflective of one’s own experiences often has significant value for the younger members of the parallel cultures. This paper reports the results of the responses of young adult and adult Asian and Asian American readers to a Chinese American young adult novel set in the 1920’s. The findings suggest that (1) cultural background played a major role in reader response, (2) cross-cultural reading responses revealed readers’ ethnic identity development, especially when dealing with between-world situations, and (3) Chinese Americans continue to experience racial discrimination today. Implications for educators include the importance of critical literacy and the inclusion of multiethnic literature in the K-12 curriculum.

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LEI, DAPHNE. "The Production and Consumption of Chinese Theatre in Nineteenth-Century California." Theatre Research International 28, no. 3 (October 2003): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883303001147.

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The history of the earliest documented Chinese opera performances in California (1852) and their successors during the following decades reveal how Chinese theatre in the diaspora was produced and consumed by Chinese immigrants, European visitors and Americans. On the one hand, a familiar repertoire eased the nostalgia and reinforced the national consciousness of Chinese immigrants, while on the other, the ethnocentric reading and writing of Chinese theatre helped establish an eternal frontier in the ‘old West’ to protect American national identity in late nineteenth-century California's periods of economic and political turmoil. Finally, the exoticism of California's Chinese theatre in America contributed to a European sense of American cultural uniqueness. Chinese opera performances played a crucial role in the invention of Californian identity.

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Lam, Melissa. "Diasporic literature." Cultural China in Discursive Transformation 21, no. 2 (July 5, 2011): 309–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.21.2.08lam.

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Only since the 1960s has the Asian Diaspora been studied as a historical movement greatly impacting the United States — affecting not only socio-historical cultural trends and geographic ethnography, but also culturally redefining major areas of Western history and culture. This paper explores the reverse impact of the Asian America Diaspora on Mainland China or the Chinese Motherland. Mainland Chinese writers Ha Jin and Yiyun Li have left China and today teach in major American universities and reside in America. However, the fiction of both authors explores themes and landscapes that remain immersed in Mainland Chinese culture, traditions and environment. Both authors explore the themes of “cultural collisions” between East and West, choosing to write in their adopted English language instead of their mother Putonghua tongue. Central to this paper is the idea that ethnicity and race are socially and historically constructed as well as contested, reclaimed and redefined

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Grice, H. "Chinese American Literature since the 1850s." American Literature 73, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 665–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-665.

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Gao, Yan. "Chinese American Literature since the 1850s." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 9, no. 3-4 (2000): 251–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656100793645877.

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Wilcoxon, Hardy C. "Chinese American Literature Beyond the Horizon." New Literary History 27, no. 2 (1996): 313–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.1996.0028.

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Li, Juan. "Pidgin and Code-Switching: Linguistic Identity and Multicultural Consciousness in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 13, no. 3 (August 2004): 269–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947004041974.

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A recurring theme in Maxine Hong Kingston’s works is the search for a linguistic identity of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans, and this theme receives the fullest treatment in her fourth book, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1987). In representing the social, cultural and linguistic reality for the Chinese American community living in the multicultural United States, Kingston’s fundamental strategy is to use pidgin expressions and code-switching in the characters’ speech to present a truthful picture of languages used in the Chinese American community. A close analysis of the patterns and functions of pidgins in Tripmaster Monkey reveals that while Kingston records actual linguistic features of Chinese Immigrants’ Pidgin English (CIPE) in dialogue to preserve the linguistic individuality and identity of the Chinese American community, she draws on stereotypical features of the past Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) to combat negative stereotypes of Chinese Americans’ languages. Furthermore, Kingston uses code-switching in the characters’ speech to reinscribe her multicultural consciousness into her writing. This article examines the thematic significance of pidgin expressions and code-switched utterances in the characters’ speech in Tripmaster Monkey.

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Serrie, Hendrick. "Training Chinese Managers for Leadership: Six Cross-Cultural Principles." Practicing Anthropology 21, no. 4 (September 1, 1999): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.21.4.c3175321268u3778.

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I deas of leadership and of what constitutes leadership behavior represent one of the most difficult intercultural challenges within American joint ventures in the People's Republic of China. Chinese and Americans have acquired such contrasting sets of cultural understandings about leadership, each set backed by an impressive history, tradition, and body of literature, that at times they seem unalterably opposed.

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Kwon, Simona, Jazmine Wong, Janet Pan, Andrew Rosenberg, Germaine Cuff, and Myint Aye. "SOCIOCULTURAL DETERMINANTS IN PAIN PERCEPTION AND MANAGEMENT AMONG OLDER CHINESE AMERICANS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S713—S714. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2619.

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Abstract Background: Chinese Americans make up the largest Asian American subgroup in the US. Data from a large health system indicate that older Chinese Americans experience lower satisfaction in pain management after surgery compared to all other racial/ethnic groups. Objective: To understand pain experience among older Chinese American patients to improve pain satisfaction strategies Methods: A mixed methods study was conducted, including: 1. A scoping review of the peer-reviewed published literature; 2) face-to-face survey; and 3) qualitative interviews. 14 Chinese American postsurgical patients >65 years of age were recruited for the survey and interview with a trained bilingual Community Health Worker. Questions from the Survey on Disparities in Quality of Healthcare and Kleinman’s Explanatory Model of Illness guided the data collection tools. Results: The 31 studies identified in the review were largely observational; none assessed pain control or management interventions for older Chinese Americans. Most participants reported experiencing a language barrier that hindered healthcare staff communication during hospital stay. Even with an interpreter, limited English proficient patients reported lower understanding of health information compared to those who did not need interpretation. Ideas of “pushing through” pain, perceiving physicians as “busy people,” and mismatch in pain assessment tools contributed to pain attendance delay. Facilitators to care included family support, culturally and linguistically-tailored tools, and availability of cultural remedies. Conclusions: This mixed-methods study identified key themes including socio-cultural barriers and facilitators to effective pain care and management. Findings will inform tools and resources to better capture and address pain management in Chinese Americans.

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Metzger, S. "Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture; Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War." American Literature 79, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 201–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-085.

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Tabora, Betty, and Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud. "Depression Among Chinese Americans: A Review of the Literature." Issues in Mental Health Nursing 15, no. 6 (January 1994): 569–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/01612849409040534.

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Lockard, Joe, and Qin Dan. "Translation ideologies of American literature in China." Translation and Interpreting Studies 11, no. 2 (July 22, 2016): 268–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.11.2.07loc.

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Chinese translations of U.S. literature manifest a shift from the third-world internationalism and anti-Western and anti-capitalist politics of the 1950s toward a diminished rhetorical antagonism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Because translation introductions are instrumental in introducing Chinese readers to the social context of U.S. literature, we surveyed a broad sample of prefaces. Based on this survey, we theorize China-U.S. translation relations within a world system; examine the ideological character of post-Revolution translation introductions to American literature; and identify shifting ideological tides following the Cultural Revolution.

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Lai-Henderson, Selina. "Color around the Globe: Langston Hughes and Black Internationalism in China." MELUS 45, no. 2 (2020): 88–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlaa016.

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Abstract Langston Hughes was the first African American writer to set foot on Chinese soil. Having visited Mexico, Europe, and West Africa before he turned twenty-two, Hughes eventually also made his way to the Soviet Union, Japan, and China in 1933. At the age of thirty-one, he accomplished what none of his contemporaries or predecessors had been able to achieve—to rewrite the public image of African Americans in the Chinese cultural and intellectual imagination. Crucially, his visit to China pushed beyond the limits of black internationalism as he responded to American and European global hegemony through using China as an experimental ground. At a time when the Soviet Union held center stage in communist revolutionary thought, Hughes's Chinese encounters challenged the assumption within the American and African American communities that China was largely irrelevant in the discourse of proletarianism. The internationalist perspectives that he obtained from the sojourn offered him a powerful tool to communicate the struggles of black citizenship at home in a global context. It stimulated a racial consciousness that defied national, geographical, and political boundaries of the US color line.

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Anderson, Crystal S. "Chinatown Black Tigers: Black Masculinity and Chinese Heroism in Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway." Ethnic Studies Review 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2003): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2003.26.1.67.

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Images of ominous villains and asexual heroes in literature and mainstream American culture tend to relegate Asian American men to limited expressions of masculinity. These emasculating images deny Asian American men elements of traditional masculinity, including agency and strength. Many recognize the efforts of Frank Chin, a Chinese American novelist, to confront, expose, and revise such images by relying on a tradition of Chinese heroism. In Gunga Din Highway (1994), however, Chin creates an Asian American masculinity based on elements of both the Chinese heroic tradition and a distinct brand of African American masculinity manifested in the work of Ishmael Reed, an African American novelist and essayist known for his outspoken style. Rather than transforming traditional masculinity to include Asian American manhood, Chin's images of men represent an appropriation of elements from two ethnic sources that Chin uses to underscore those of Asian Americans. While deconstructing the reductive images advocated by the dominant culture, Chin critiques the very black masculinity he adopts. Ultimately he fails to envision modes of masculinity not based on dominance, yet Chin's approach also can be read as the ultimate expression of Asian American individualism.

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KIM, Hyejoon. "Transnational Overseas Chinese Families in North American Chinese-Language Literature." Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 92 (January 31, 2020): 121–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.46487/jmcl.2020.01.92.121.

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Houioui, Faten. "Mapping the Traumatized Subject in Chinese American Literature." IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 22, no. 05 (May 2017): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/0837-220501119126.

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Chen, Zhenyuan. "An Analysis of Chinese American Literature from the Perspective of Cultural Translation." Lifelong Education 9, no. 6 (September 28, 2020): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.18282/le.v9i6.1342.

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The rise and development of Chinese-American literature is closely related to the socio-cultural context in which the subject of its creation resides. Because the works contain a lot of Chinese elements, the writing of Chinese American literature often entails translation from the perspective of cultural studies. This kind of translation does not refer to the simple conversion on linguistic level, but the adaptation of Chinese culture, Chinese history and Chinese experience, which is a kind of invisible cultural translation. Chinese American writers have applied Chinese traditional culture to their works and achieved success in the target audience, which provides effective solutions and rich experience for the dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. This paper intends to study Chinese American literature from the perspective of cultural translations, and its enlightenment on the dissemination of traditional Chinese culture overseas.

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Lee, DongHun, Yinghui Zhang, Michael Cottingham, JungKun Park, and Ho Yeol Yu. "Values and goals of Chinese sport consumers contrary to American counterparts." International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship 18, no. 1 (February 6, 2017): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijsms-05-2016-0027.

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Purpose Existing studies suggest the importance of research related to values and goals and their impacts on consumer involvement. However, cross-cultural examination of values and goals in the context of sport is scarce. To broaden our understanding of the cultural impact of values and goals on sport involvement, the purpose of this paper is to compare perspectives between Easterners (Chinese) and Westerners (Americans). Design/methodology/approach This exploratory research utilized both online and written surveys to collect two convenience samples from 281 American and 636 Chinese participants. Analysis included descriptive statistics, correlations, and regression analyses. Findings Results indicated both populations perceived values and goals differently; Chinese responded less favorably to values and goals than American counterparts. Values and goals predicted cognitive and behavioral sport involvement with variance in each population. Results generally supported a large cultural variation between the cultures. Lastly, similarities and differences in the perceived importance of values and goals and their subsequent impacts on cognitive and behavioral sport involvement suggest a need for a unique managerial approach when American businesses enter new cultural boundaries like China. Originality/value This research is significant because studies exploring values and goals and their influences on sport consumption at the cross-cultural level are still limited in sport literature. Furthermore, an empirical examination of the impact of values and goals on sport consumers across cultures will help increase generalizability of the findings to sport literature.

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Xu, Yingguo. "Designing Chinese American Literature Courses and Textbooks in China." Amerasia Journal 34, no. 2 (January 2008): 125–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/amer.34.2.lk13884p732lv570.

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Jozsa, Krisztian, Jun Wang, Karen Caplovitz Barrett, and George A. Morgan. "Age and Cultural Differences in Self-Perceptions of Mastery Motivation and Competence in American, Chinese, and Hungarian School Age Children." Child Development Research 2014 (December 29, 2014): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/803061.

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We examined age differences in self-perceptions of five dimensions of mastery motivation and also of competence in American, Chinese, and Hungarian children and teens. Participants included 200 Americans, 1,465 Chinese, and 8,175 Hungarians from 7 to 19 years of age. The Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire provides comparable data across these different cultures as indicated by very similar factor structures and reasonably good internal consistency reliabilities for the scales. Across all three cultures, there was the expected decline from primary to secondary school in total persistence and the four instrumental mastery motivation scales, except for social persistence with adults in the American sample. Mastery pleasure did not decline in the American and Chinese samples but declined in the Hungarian sample. Self-perceived competence did not decline significantly in the American sample or in the Hungarian sample from age 11 to 17; however, competence self-ratings declined in the Chinese sample. The three cultures were compared at 11 and 16. Although there were some significant differences, small effect sizes indicated that the level of motivation was similar for each culture at each age. The other literature provides clues about why the declines occur in all three cultures and why there are some differences among cultures.

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Jia, Zhimeng, Sandy C. Stokes, Shirley Y. Pan, Richard E. Leiter, Hillary D. Lum, and Cynthia X. Pan. "Heart to Heart Cards: A Novel, Culturally Tailored, Community-Based Advance Care Planning Tool for Chinese Americans." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 38, no. 6 (January 27, 2021): 650–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909121989986.

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Context: A paucity of literature describes the growing Chinese American community’s end-of-life (EOL) priorities and preferences. Objective: Develop a culturally-tailored advance care planning (ACP) tool to understand the EOL preferences of this underserved minority group. Methods: Informed by the Cultural Appropriateness Theory, the Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) developed Heart to Heart (HTH) Cards using a 3-step approach. First, CACCC created and refined a list of bilingual, culturally relevant EOL issues. Next, CACCC organized the EOL issues into a card deck. Finally, CACCC developed a unique playstyle of the cards—the HTH Café. From 2014-2019, CACCC recruited Chinese American volunteers and participants for HTH Cafés. Following each Café, participants completed an anonymous survey describing their sociodemographics, top 3 cards, and café evaluation. Results: The 54 HTH Cards were organized into 4 suits (spiritual, physical, financial/legal, and social). Each card displayed a culturally-tailored EOL issue in English and Chinese. Playstyles included one-on-one and group formats (ie. HTH Café). CACCC volunteers conducted 316 HTH Cafés for 2,267 Chinese American adults. Most participants were female (61.6%), between 18-50 years old (56.7%), lived in California (80.2%) and born in Asia (74.3%). The top priority (25.5%) was “If I’m going to die anyway, I don’t want to be kept alive by machines.” Participants thought the session was pleasant (99.5%) and expressed intent to complete advance directives (86.5%). Conclusion: HTH Cards represents the first, theory-driven, culturally-tailored ACP tool for Chinese Americans. More research is needed to establish its impact on ACP conversations and outcomes.

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U. Maruyama, Naho. "Reunion or disconnection? Emotional labor among individual roots tourists who are second-generation Chinese Americans." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 11, no. 3 (August 7, 2017): 309–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-05-2016-0041.

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to illustrate the process of emotional work undertaken by Chinese Americans who independently visit their ancestral land without joining organized tours to define who they are and where they belong. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach was chosen, as few studies have investigated the experiences of individual roots tourists. Face-to-face, in-depth individual interviews were conducted with 25 Chinese American roots tourists. To analyze the data, a cross-case approach was used. Findings The interview narratives revealed that the interviewees have mixed feelings about being identified as Americans while they also made negative remarks about being identified as local Chinese. The close interaction with the locals emphasized, rather than blurred, the differences in language, political loyalty and economic status between the diaspora and local residents. The results show that Chinese Americans draw a clear boundary between themselves as “we” and locals as “they”. Originality/value This study explores the experiences of roots tourists who visit their ancestral land without joining an organized tour. This is a focus that has been lacking in the literature because past studies of roots tourism, particularly among second- and later-generation of immigrants, have predominantly focused on the experiences of those who join group tours to visit their ancestral country. The findings showed that similar to organized roots tourists, independent roots tourists experienced intense “emotional labor” in negotiating and making sense of competing identities, indicating that the social boundaries between the diaspora and local residents are enmeshed in their daily lives. This finding adds important knowledge to the literature on the tourism experiences of the diaspora, a growing segment of visiting friends and relatives market.

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Bing, Wu. "Reading Chinese American Literature to Learn about America, China, and Chinese America." Amerasia Journal 34, no. 2 (January 2008): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/amer.34.2.j6420m165642w0m4.

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Dan, Lockard, and Penglu. "Chinese Anthologies of American Literature, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Import-Export." symplokē 28, no. 1-2 (2020): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/symploke.28.1-2.0277.

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Kaufman, Eleanor. "The Inexistence of the Western Jewish Archive." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 127, no. 2 (March 2012): 375–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2012.127.2.375.

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Many scholars have recently attempted to think critically about the archive, to conceive of it not simply as a neutral repository of information but also as governed by often indiscernible laws and intricate relations of desire and power. Certainly the scholarly products of detailed archival research are themselves the result of complicated archival negotiations, sortings, and withholdings. I wish to focus here on what I will call archival withholding—the attempt to disrupt the transmission function of the archive—in the context of the Western American Jewish archives that I work on; I will leave lingering the question of what, if anything, lends a Jewish, or “ethnic,” specificity to such withholding. The materials at issue—archives and cemeteries related to rural Jewish settlers in the American West in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century—might strike some as incongruous, since Jewish American settlement is generally associated with East Coast urban centers and not with smalltown agricultural America. But in fact the American West is littered with traces of Jewish settlements and (often short-lived) agricultural communities, and a considerable amount of work documents this topic. Just as there were ethnicities of all sorts in the rural American West—Chinese workers and African Americans have certainly been given deserved attention—so there were Jewish settlers.

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Alcalá, Héctor E., and Mienah Z. Sharif. "Going flat: examining heterogeneity in the soda–obesity relationship by subgroup and place of birth among Asian Americans." Public Health Nutrition 20, no. 8 (February 24, 2017): 1380–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980017000106.

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AbstractObjectiveTo determine if the association between soda consumption and obesity is uniform among Asian-American population subgroups.DesignWe conducted multivariate logistic regression analyses on odds of being obese among seven Asian subgroups and by place of birth using data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey.SettingAn omnibus population-based health survey.SubjectsNon-institutionalized adults, aged 18 years or over, residing in California (n 36 271).ResultsDespite low levels of soda consumption in several Asian-American ethnic groups, soda consumption increased the odds of being obese among Chinese, Koreans and Other Asians but not for Whites. Obesity risk varied across Asian subgroups and by place of birth within these subgroups.ConclusionsMore public health efforts addressing soda consumption in Asian-American communities are needed as a strategy for not only preventing chronic diseases but also disparities, considering the varying levels of soda intake across subgroups. Results support the growing body of literature critiquing acculturation theory in immigrant health research by documenting inconsistent findings by place of birth. Future research should take into account the heterogeneity among Asian Americans to advance our understanding of health outcomes and disparities.

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Uba, George, L. Ling-Chi Wang, and Henry Yiheng Zhao. "Chinese American Poetry: An Anthology." MELUS 18, no. 3 (1993): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/468070.

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Hillenbrand, M. "Letters of Penance: Writing America in Chinese and the Location of Chinese American Literature." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38, no. 3 (July 23, 2013): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlt044.

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Qian, Suoqiao. "The Mad Chinese Man in America: Zhang Xiguo’s .Wife Killing." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 12, no. 3-4 (2003): 191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656103793645270.

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AbstractAsian immigrant literature has attracted far less attention than it deserves in Asian-American studies. Almost exclusive attention has been paid to English-language texts while Asian immigrant literature is multilingual. In deploring such monolingual prejudice, Werner Sollors has recently made an urgent and groundbreaking plea “for a multilingual turn in American Studies.”

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F. Gentle, Paul. "The experience of an American economics visiting faculty member in China." Knowledge and Performance Management 3, no. 1 (April 24, 2019): 6–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/kpm.03(1).2019.02.

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Some American economists have contemplated taking a visiting academic post at a Chinese University. This article is to help inform an American economist what some facets of the experience may be like. There is a literature review, which includes the work of Gregory Chow who was one of the most influential economists, who ascertained the economic education needs of China, once Deng Xiaoping wished to implement a much less Maoist economic model. The experience of an American economist who was a visiting faculty member in China for almost twelve years serves as the basis of this story. The results of this article several cities in China have produced an outlook of what contemplating American faculty to be mindful of. One can learn a lot through assignments in China. Knowing how to convey a respectful attitude towards Chinese will usually increase the respect the Chinese show visiting American economics faculty.

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Li, Rongxiang. "On the Influence of Cultural Differences on the Translation of British and American Literature." Advances in Higher Education 3, no. 2 (October 10, 2019): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v3i2.1416.

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<p>The creators of British and American literature will integrate certain cultural background into their literary works, and the author's thoughts and views are also deeply influenced by British and American culture. Therefore, when translating British and American literature, the translator must take into account the differences between Chinese and western cultures and accurately translate the contents with cultural differences so that people can have a deeper understanding of the original works. By analyzing the influence of cultural differences in the translation of British and American literature, this paper discusses the translation methods of literary works under different cultural backgrounds, so as to provide reference for the translation of British and American literary works in the future.</p>

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López-Calvo, Ignacio. "From Interethnic Alliances to the “Magical Negro”: Afro-Asian Interactions in Asian Latin American Literature." Humanities 7, no. 4 (November 5, 2018): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7040110.

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This essay studies Afro-Asian sociocultural interactions in cultural production by or about Asian Latin Americans, with an emphasis on Cuba and Brazil. Among the recurrent characters are the black slave, the china mulata, or the black ally who expresses sympathy or even marries the Asian character. This reflects a common history of bondage shared by black slaves, Chinese coolies, and Japanese indentured workers, as well as a common history of marronage. These conflicts and alliances between Asians and blacks contest the official discourse of mestizaje (Spanish-indigenous dichotomies in Mexico and Andean countries, for example, or black and white binaries in Brazil and the Caribbean) that, under the guise of incorporating the other, favored whiteness while attempting to silence, ignore, or ultimately erase their worldviews and cultures.

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Jędrzejko, Paweł. "Translocality/Methodology. The Americas, or Experiencing the World." Review of International American Studies 13, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.10013.

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The Americas offer a peculiar stage for translocal methodologies. If we agree that the products of Chinese American culture—which, in the course of the last 170 years of interaction, has evolved into a unique, American, phenomenon—can not be labeled as “Made in China,” then contemporary Chinese medicine in the Americas cannot legitimately be perceived solely as an ‘import.’ Beyond doubt, phenomena such as the emergence of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the California Institute of Integral Studies testify to the fact that the once ‘exotic’ forms of therapy are now being granted a status parallel to those developed throughout the history of Western medicine. Increasingly, as translocal, they are becoming recognized as non-foreign elements of the glocal culture. Similarly, the exploration of the physical world, which, to an experienced dancer of Bharatanatyam, Odissi, or any other of the dominant forms of the classical Indian dance is an obvious function of his or her own experience of the ‘body-in-the-world,’ has, translocally, opened up an altogether new space of profound understanding of ourselves in our environment. It is not about the fashionable, politically correct, ‘openness to other cultures’; it is about the opening up to a parallel meditative experience of the “bodymind,” which neither excludes nor isolates the sphere of emotions from the reality of what-is-being-experienced. Or, to express it in terms more easily comprehensible to a Western reader, dance may prove to be a methodology (not just a method) serving the purpose of a more profound understanding of the complexity and unity of the universe, and a language to express this understanding. Making the most of available traditions might produce much greater benefits than remaining locked within just one, Western, Anglonormative, library of concepts. In the context of the ongoing debate on transnational American Studies, the article offers an insight into how the worldwide studies of the Americas and translocality intersect, and how such a perspective may contribute to the multifaceted process of the decolonization, understood both literally and intellectually.

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Paliszewska-Mojsiuk, Monika. "Historia imigracji Chińczyków do Stanów Zjednoczonych – trzecia fala." Gdańskie Studia Azji Wschodniej, no. 18 (2020): 94–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23538724gs.20.037.12874.

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The third wave of Chinese immigration to the United States of America This article offers an exploration of the history of the third wave of Chinese immigration to the USA which began after 1943. After a brief introduction to previous legislation promoting Chinese exclusion from America, the article provides a detailed description of immigration policies that influenced the influx of Chinese. Moreover, it considers background information relating to the socio-economic challenges that the Chinese faced in their new homeland. Chinese Americans also experienced cultural alienation, which they expressed, among other ways, in literature. After years of exclusion, since the second half of the 20th century, Chinese may finally immigrate to the United States on equal terms to those enjoyed by representatives of other nationalities.

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Shao, Juanping. "A Study of Internet-Based Collaborative Translation Model for Chinese American Literature." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1646 (September 2020): 012111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1646/1/012111.

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Chen, Rong, and Chunmei Hu. "End-of-Dinner Food Offering: A Three-Way Contrastive Study." Contrastive Pragmatics 1, no. 2 (July 10, 2020): 242–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10009.

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Abstract This paper presents a three-way contrastive study of the structure of the end-of-dinner food offering event – hosts asking guests to eat more food when the latter have indicated that they have finished eating – across three population groups: Chinese residents of the City of Xi’an as of 1995 (as reported in Chen, 1996), American residents of Southern California as of 2019, and Chinese residents of Xi’an as of 2019. It is found that, in 2019, Americans living in Southern California only infrequently offer their guests more food at the end of a dinner, while the Chinese residents of Xi’an (the Xi’an Chinese) offer their guests food much less often than in 1995, although still more frequently than their American counterparts. The difference observed between the Chinese and American groups is attributed to the different notions of politeness that are held in the two cultures: the Xi’an Chinese still maintain elements of hospitality and warmth as key notions of politeness, in a similar way to Libyan Arabic speakers, as discovered by Grainger, Mansor and Mills (2015), while the offering behaviour of Southern Californians is motivated by the respect they hold for another person’s freedom of action. The noticeable change in the way food is offered at the end of a Chinese dinner between 1995 and 2019 – which can be seen to be a process of ‘deritualisation’ (Kádár, 2013) – is due to the influence of Western cultures. The significance of our work thus goes beyond the understanding of both food offering in Chinese and Chinese politeness: it adds to the scant literature on the structure of the offering event across cultures and places Chinese politeness in the context of other languages; it brings insights from language contact into the field of pragmatics, a decades-long research paradigm; and it demonstrates the value of diachronic contrastive pragmatics, a direction that will no doubt aid the advancement of contrastive pragmatics in particular and, as a consequence, pragmatics in general.

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Shrestha, Nawal, and Xian-Chun Zhang. "On the presence of North American clubmoss Huperzia lucidula (Lycopodiaceae) in China: An intercontinental disjunction or misidentification." Phytotaxa 219, no. 3 (July 14, 2015): 243. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.219.3.4.

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The North American shining clubmoss, Huperzia lucidula, was originally thought to be endemic to North America. However it was reported from China by Ren Chang Ching in 1981, and hence was believed to have a disjunct distribution in North America and Asia. Since then, in all Chinese literature H. lucidula has been described as a disjunct taxon, although in North American literature it has nearly always only been reported from eastern North America. The studies on the Chinese taxon are at present insufficient to address this taxonomical and biogeographical disparity. In this study we have attempted to unravel this issue using integrative morphological and molecular analyses. Morphological study included a thorough examination of specimens from the entire distribution range of H. lucidula in the USA, Canada and China following field collections. Molecular study included Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian inference phylogenetical analyses of three chloroplast markers: the genes rbcL and matK and the psbA-trnH intergenic spacer. The results showed distinct morphological differences between the North American and Chinese taxa, sufficient to recognize them as separate species. The molecular results corroborated these findings and supported the separation of the two taxa. Based on our results, the Chinese taxon is neither a variant of H. lucidula nor sister to it and therefore the supposed disjunct distribution of H. lucidula is erroneous and a result of misidentification. The Chinese taxon that was firstly reported by Ching as H. lucidula var. asiatica has been elevated to the species rank and a new combination has been made.

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Ch'maj, Betty E. M. "Foreword: The Strange Inscrutable Career of Uncle Tom's Cabin in China." Prospects 18 (October 1993): 507–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300004993.

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The straightforward account by Tao Jie of the history of Uncle Tom's Cabin in China raises questions of great interest to contemporary American Studies scholarship. To the old question - how shall we represent America's “usable past?” - is added another: “Usable to whom?” This question, now being asked by a wide variety of multiculturalists reexamining our literature and history from revisionist perspectives, is the central issue raised by Tao's essay. Here we are given a specific case study for cross-cultural comparison that allows us to contrast the America we imagine we have been exporting to the America other cultures reinvent. Equally important, Tao provides us with the opportunity to examine one of the most compelling of our cultural documents from the perspective of 20th-century Chinese history and see how, stage by stage, the translators interpreted the story to respond to changing forces in Chinese cultural history.

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Chiu, Randy K., and Frederick A. Kosinski. "IS CHINESE CONFLICT-HANDLING BEHAVIOR INFLUENCED BY CHINESE VALUES?" Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 22, no. 1 (January 1, 1994): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1994.22.1.81.

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The Collectivism-Individualism literature argues that there is a difference in the way that Americans and Chinese handle conflict based on differences in culture. It has also been speculated that these differences have been influenced by Chinese values. However, these positions have not been conclusively supported by empirical findings. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether styles of conflict handling behavior were partially affected by the presence of the influence of Chinese values. The results of the finding indicated that there was a strong relationship between Chinese values and the choice of conflict-handling styles.

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Rzepka, Charles J. "Race, Region, Rule: Genre and the Case of Charlie Chan." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 122, no. 5 (October 2007): 1463–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1463.

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This essay analyzes genre's impact on racial representation in a body of popular fiction that has shaped European Americans' definition of Asian American identity for more than three-quarters of a century: the Charlie Chan novels of Earl Derr Biggers. To advance his stated goal of overturning Chinese stereotypes, Biggers experimented with genres of locale and criminality. The Hawaiian setting of his first Chan story, The House without a Key, challenged the generic topography of Chinatown regionalism by invoking a counterintuitive regionalist prototype, while the book's plot followed the conventions of classical detective fiction, a highly formulaic subgenre of crime literature that perpetuated racist stereotypes while dominating best-seller lists throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Exploiting a unique feature of the detective formula known as rule subversion, however, Biggers enlisted the genre's very tendencies toward racism to undermine racist stereotypes.

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Brown, Tori. "Bridging the Gap – Chinese Nursing Students and Faculty Development: A Review of Literature." POJ Nursing Practice & Research | Volume 1- Issue 3 – 2017 1, no. 3 (September 8, 2017): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.32648/2577-9516/1/3/003.

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Objective: To report the current academic practices of Chinese nursing students. The intent of this narrative review is to provide educators and researchers with a background to the Chinese cultural needs, faculty teaching strategies, and recommendation of future research. Background: Globalization is becoming a driving force in various professions across the world, especially healthcare. Nursing programs in the United Stated are collaborating with other countries such as China to create international exchange programs among nursing students. As American nursing programs transition to educate international students, the students often experience academic challenges. Additionally, faculty struggle with developing skills and teaching techniques to accommodate their academic learning styles. This literature review will critically review current practices that can assist nurse educators in preparing academic strategies and skills in educating Chinese students. Design: A narrative literature review. Method: A comprehensive search of three major databases for literature between the years of 2007 to 2017, assisted in identifying qualitative and quantitative studies that addressed the challenges among Chinese nursing students and strategies faculty can incorporate into their teaching practices that can soften the transition of Chinese nursing students. Results: A total of 27 studies met the inclusion criteria for this review. Conclusion: There is some data that highlights the teaching strategies educators find effective while educating Chinese students. However, there is still limited research on the learning experiences of Chinese nursing students and their perception on studying in America. Keywords: International nursing, Chinese nursing students, Faculty Development and International students, International exchange programs, Teaching strategies and International students

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