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Taiwanese --- Ethnic identity. --- Taiwan --- Civilization. --- S26/0840 --- S26/0200 --- Taiwan--Ethnology (aborigines and others) --- Taiwan--General works --- Formosans --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity

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By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements are entirely different from the traditional closed Chinese communities; the immigrants in Queens think of themselves as living in "worldtown," not in a second Chinatown. Drawing on interviews with members of a hundred households, Chen brings out telling aspects of demography, immigration experience, family life, and gender roles, and then turns to vivid, humanistic portraits of three families. Chen also describes the organizational life of the Chinese in Queens with a lively account of the power struggles and social interactions that occur within religious, sports, social service, and business groups and with the outside world.

Chinese Americans --- Taiwanese Americans --- Social conditions --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (N.Y.) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Chinese Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions --- Taiwanese Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions --- Queens (New York, N.Y.) - Social conditions --- New York (N.Y.) - Social conditions

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"The economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech engineers realized that they could greatly increase their career opportunities by establishing a life-style that allowed them and their families to regularly commute between two homes, one in Silicon Valley and the other in Taiwan. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how residents of the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes reflect their personal identities - ways that enable them to make sense of "living life within two places at once.""--BOOK JACKET.

Taiwanese Americans --- Taiwanese Americans --- Immigrants --- Commuters --- Commuters --- Transnationalism --- Community life --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Social conditions --- Social conditions --- Social conditions --- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) --- Hsinchu City (Taiwan) --- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) --- Relations --- Relations --- Social conditions.

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Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and sovereignty emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War legacies continue to shape contemporary political struggles over sovereignty and citizenship. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Through tracing parallels between the predicaments of Chinese marital immigrants and the uncertain future of the Taiwan nation-state, the book shows how intimate attachments and emotional investments infuse the governmental practices of Taiwanese bureaucrats charged with regulating immigration and producing citizenship and sovereignty. Its attention to a group of immigrants whose exceptional status has become necessary to Taiwan's national integrity exposes the social, political, and subjective consequences of life on the margins of citizenship and sovereignty.

Citizenship --- Self-determination, National --- Intercountry marriage --- Foreign spouses --- Chinese --- Women immigrants --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Binational marriage --- International marriage --- Marriages, International --- Marriage --- Alien spouses --- Foreign national spouses --- Spouses --- Ethnology --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Political aspects --- Social conditions. --- Law and legislation --- China --- Taiwan --- Foreign relations --- Noncitizen spouses --- asian studies. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese marital immigrants. --- chinese spouses. --- citizenship. --- cold war asia. --- contemporary politics in asia. --- female chinese immigrants. --- female emigrants from china. --- foreign spouses taiwan. --- immigrant chinese women. --- immigration china to taiwan. --- immigration. --- intercountry marriage. --- marital immigration. --- marriage and family china. --- marriage and family taiwan. --- marrying to immigrate. --- taiwan. --- taiwanese citizenship. --- taiwanese immigration. --- taiwanese sovereignty.

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The early modern period opened a new era in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying global travel and trade, especially the slave trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into contact as never before. Stigma examines the distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas as they began to circulate and reshape one another in the early modern world. By highlighting the interwoven histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, wounds and scars, this volume shows that early modern markers of skin and readers of marked skin did not think about different kinds of cutaneous signs as separate from each other. On the contrary, Europeans described Indigenous tattooing in North America, Thailand, and the Philippines by referring their readers to the tattoos Christian pilgrims received in Jerusalem or Bethlehem. When explaining the devil's mark on witches, theologians claimed it was an inversion of holy marks such as those of baptism or divine stigmata. Stigma investigates how early modern people used permanent marks on skin to affirm traditional roles and beliefs, and how they hybridized and transformed skin marking to meet new economic and political demands.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Xiao Chen, Ana Fonseca Conboy, Peter Erickson, Claire Goldstein, Matthew S. Hopper, Katrina H. B. Keefer, Mordechay Lewy, Nicole Nyffenegger, Mairin Odle, and Allison Stedman.

Body marking --- Tattooing --- History. --- Atlantic world. --- Taiwanese tattoos. --- baptismal mark. --- black patches. --- body marking. --- branding for rabies. --- early modern period. --- history of fashion. --- history of makeup. --- history of medicine. --- history of skin marking. --- history of the body. --- judicial branding. --- judicial history. --- martyr plays. --- mouches. --- native American tattoos. --- pilgrim tattoos. --- pilgrimage. --- scarification. --- scars. --- slave branding. --- slave trade. --- stigmata. --- HISTORY / Europe / Western.