عنوان

Re-imagining '(British)-Chineseness' :

شماره

TLets532993

عنوان اصلي

Re-imagining '(British)-Chineseness' :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Yeh, Diana

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

the politics and poetics of art and migration in diaspora space

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of East London

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2009

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of East London

امتياز متن

2009

متن يادداشت

This thesis interrogates dominant conceptions of `(British)-Chineseness' by illuminatingthe intersecting artistic and migrant journeys of four artists - Shih-I and DymiaHsiung, Li Yuan Chia and Anthony Key - through Britain at different periods from the1930s to the present day. It has three main objectives. Firstly, it aims to redress the serious lack of scholarship on the histories of the Chinese in general and their cultural and artistic legacies in particular. Secondly, it critiques, reconceptualises and traces the genealogies of existing essentialising and a historical discourses of `(British)-Chineseness' dominant in academia and society at large. Thirdly, by bringing together thestudy of art and migration, it redresses the polarisation of the `(British)-Chinese' subjectas either `artist' or `im/migrant'. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to wider debates onthe dynamics of art, culture, identity, difference, community, home and belonging inmulti-ethnic societies.Employing an interdisciplinary, multi-sited research methodology, the project forges acritical ethnographic path through the fields of the social sciences and the arts andhumanities. Emerging from fieldwork that took place between 2004 and 2007 in six keylocalities in four countries - London, Cumbria (Britain); Beijing, Cha Dong (China);Taipei (Taiwan) and Washington (US), it combines participant observation, ethnographic,life history and biographical interviews; textual and visual analyses of literary and artisticworks; and archival research in public libraries and private collections.Both existing disciplinary boundaries between the arts/humanities and social sciences aswell as conventional conflations of race, ethnicity, nationality, culture and communityhave limited understandings of the dynamics of artistic practices and multi-ethnic living.These limitations are embodied in the polarised figures of the `artist' and im/migrant'.By illuminating how these artist-im/migrants experience, negotiate, impact upon andcontribute to the social and cultural dynamics of multiple localities in Britain, this projectseeks to further understanding of the workings of and challenges facing multi-ethnicsocieties across the globe today. In doing so, it creates an interface between existing disciplinary divides, thereby developing a new methodological approach to the study of art, culture and migration.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Yeh, Diana

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of East London

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y