This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. 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.
Maria Montt Strabucchi is Assistant Professor in the Institute of History and Member of the Center for Asian Studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.Carol Chan is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile.María Elvira Ríos is a researcher in the Institute of Aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1. Introduction: Chineseness in Chile.- Chapter 2. The Enduring Duality of Chineseness.- Chapter 3 – Dynamics of In/comprehensibility.- Chapter 4. Raialized Femininities and Masculinities, and the Queerness of the Ethnic Chinese.- Chapter 5. Marca Chile, Marca China.- Chapter 6. Many-faced Orientalism: Racism and Xenophobia in a Time of the Novel Coronavirus Covid-19.- Chatper 7. Conclusion.- Chapter 8. Deciphering the Written and Spoken “Chinese:” “Me Estás Hablando en Chino”.