ABSTRACT

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

Points of No Return

chapter |1 pages

In America

chapter |20 pages

[Un]Fracturing Images

Positioning Chinese Diaspora in Law and Culture *

chapter |25 pages

The Jet Lag of a Migratory Bird

Border Crossings Toward/from ‘The Land That is Not'

chapter |20 pages

[Per]Forming Law

Deformations and Transformations

chapter |2 pages

Beijing Two

chapter |20 pages

Growing Up Colonial and Crossing Borders

Tales from a Reporter's Notebook