Autoethnography of Three Generations of Chinese Diaspora in Japan

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  • 在日華僑華人3世代のオートエスノグラフィ
  • My Homeness and Homelessness, Born and Raised in Yokohama Chinatown
  • 横浜中華街で生まれ育った「私」のhomenessとhomelessness

Abstract

<p>My father was born in Heilongjiang Province, China, lived through the Manchukuo Period, the Sino-Japanese War, fled to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, later immigrated to Japan, and turned 100 years old in 2022. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. Fifty years ago, my family then lived in Japan with Republic of China (Taiwan) citizenship but were asked to choose either Japanese or People's Republic of China citizenship. They could not bring themselves to choose due to memories of the war with Japan and ideological differences with the Chinese Communist Party. We became stateless. As a second-generation overseas Chinese born and raised in Yokohama Chinatown, I lived as a stateless person for three decades. This autoethnography looks at Yokohama's Chinatown to reconsider the meaning of homeness and homelessness, exploring tensions between the individual and the state experienced by three generations of Chinese Diaspora- my father, myself, and my son.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390295126816687232
  • DOI
    10.14890/jjcanth.87.2_224
  • ISSN
    24240516
    13490648
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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