Chinese-ness : the meanings of identity and the nature of belonging /
Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of...
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St. Paul :
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Mom
- My mother's tongue
- Do I look like I stick out?
- Joe Huie's cafe
- The start
- The meanings of identity / The nature of belonging
- Chinese food
- Panda House
- Tears of happiness
- A life I could've had
- Chop suey community
- Other lives
- The painter
- "I've forgotten that you're Chinese"
- The wanderer
- Chinese-ness + Latin-x-ness
- Not at home in his home state
- For the first time he blended in
- He called himself Mike
- The holy land
- Finding Jesus in Tennessee
- Jesus Christ superstar
- "They placed an Asian among us"
- The designer
- Big Mac and Coke
- Three generations of Chinese-ness
- "Reborn Chinese person"
- Motherland
- First time in the Motherland
- Are you overwhelmed?
- Does speaking Chinese make you Chinese?
- A long way to go
- Lianzhou Camera Association, Lianzhou, China
- The Yao
- A photographic master
- He kind of looks like you
- A tiny particle of a huge power
- Home
- When are you going back?
- Graceful in appearance
- Sexy wing
- The ambiguity of identity
- Anyone who can help me?
- Because you are Chinese
- I have better manners
- The Philadelphia Suns
- Song of the American dream
- Love
- Don't kill Bambi
- "Motherlanded"
- Gooey noodles
- Paper sons and daughters
- Freedom is like a current of water
- You could see Grandpa Harry in his face
- My grandpa is Chinese
- He was so extremely quiet
- Guzheng player
- Perfect being imperfect
- Music has one heart.