TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese voluntary associations in the diaspora
T2 - ethnicity, gender and the (re)making of ancestral communities
AU - Chen, Ningning
AU - Hertzman, Emily
AU - Ang, Sylvia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Recent studies of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have attempted to highlight the theoretical significance of CVAs for understandings of community (re)making. However, the power dynamics inherent in community (re)making has rarely been expounded. In recognition of this, we weave together case studies across countries to explore the complex power relations played out in and through the transformation of CVAs. Collectively, CVAs are understood as ever-changing, heterogeneous ancestral communities composed of common ancestral ties be it origin, locality, surname, religion or language. We aim to contribute to existing scholarship on ethnic and diaspora studies through focusing on CVAs in three ways: (1) foreground CVAs as sites of power relations through unpacking ethnic relations and gender hierarchies; (2) illuminate Chinese diaspora transnationalism beyond political-economic perspectives; and (3) examine the contemporaneous transformation of ethnic Chinese communities in shifting times, including amidst China's “rise” as a global power.
AB - Recent studies of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have attempted to highlight the theoretical significance of CVAs for understandings of community (re)making. However, the power dynamics inherent in community (re)making has rarely been expounded. In recognition of this, we weave together case studies across countries to explore the complex power relations played out in and through the transformation of CVAs. Collectively, CVAs are understood as ever-changing, heterogeneous ancestral communities composed of common ancestral ties be it origin, locality, surname, religion or language. We aim to contribute to existing scholarship on ethnic and diaspora studies through focusing on CVAs in three ways: (1) foreground CVAs as sites of power relations through unpacking ethnic relations and gender hierarchies; (2) illuminate Chinese diaspora transnationalism beyond political-economic perspectives; and (3) examine the contemporaneous transformation of ethnic Chinese communities in shifting times, including amidst China's “rise” as a global power.
KW - Chinese diaspora
KW - Chinese voluntary associations
KW - community
KW - ethnicity
KW - gender
KW - transnationalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195695435&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2024.2354886
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2024.2354886
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85195695435
SN - 0141-9870
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
ER -