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China in Argentina: Ethnographies of a Global Expansion

China in Argentina: Ethnographies of a Global Expansion

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Series: Historical and Cultural Interconnections Between Latin America and Asia

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 3030924246
ISBN13: 9783030924249
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 2 2023
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This is the first book to shed light on the growing presence, influence and expansion of China in the daily life of Argentina. While most previous academic studies focus on the geopolitical and macroeconomics dimensions of the relations between Argentina and China, this book shows at a micro-social level the multiple facets of the economic, political and social influence of China in Argentina. The book presents ethnographic studies of encounters of actors and negotiation of identities from Argentina and China in companies, schools, restaurants, hospitals, districts, public and private institutions in Argentina. Themes discussed in the ethnographies include: identity struggle and strategic uses of culture in Buenos Aires' s Chinatown; teaching Chinese as the first foreign language or teaching it as a heritage language in a bilingual school; the contested production of images of Chinese authenticity in Chinese restaurants; the connections and contestations between so-called Western medicine and so-called Chinese Traditional Medicine; and the conflictive relations between Chinese expatriate bosses of Chinese state-owned enterprises and their Argentinean employees.

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