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Self-Construction in a Transcultural Context: Young Chinese Immigrants Constructing Selves in the UK

Self-Construction in a Transcultural Context: Young Chinese Immigrants Constructing Selves in the UK

Zuo, Yijia

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CognitionGeneral PsychologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 9811936706
ISBN13: 9789811936708
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 17 2022
Pages: 179
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the ways in which individuals construct and integrate self-positions in a transcultural context, by adopting a pluralist theoretical and methodological approach that includes both Western post-modern viewpoints and ancient Chinese philosophical ideas.

The book starts with stories of two second-generation Chinese young people and their mothers' life experiences in the UK, which can be seen as an epitome of individuals living in the modern and complex environment of the time. Using social constructionist viewpoints, it then analyzes the overt interaction between the individual and outside environment and interprets the recessive interaction, such as the individual's psychological response to the outside environment, which might be unknown to him or herself, using the psychodynamic approach based on object relations theory and other psychoanalytic concepts, such as defense mechanisms. The book uses Confucian philosophy to show how Chinese people think about the relation between other people and themselves and also integrates different and even opposing theories and viewpoints from Taoist philosophy.

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