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SUMMARY:The patriarchy of diaspora: Race fantasy and gender blindness in C
 hen Da’s studies of the Nanyang Chinese in Southeast Asia - Rachel Leow 
 (Cambridge) 
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:This paper critically appraises the earliest sociological inve
 stigations of Nanyang Chinese communities by Republican sociologist Chen D
 a (1892-1975). By exploring Chen's corpus of work and highlighting systemi
 c blindspots of race and gender\, it reveals the normative rather than emp
 irical quality of his sociological elaboration of the huaqiao. Tracing the
  genesis of his research\, and his travels through Southeast Asia\, it sho
 ws how\, at each stage\, Chen’s investigations\, academic networks\, con
 nections he made with his local informants\, and even his collaborations w
 ith his principal translator\, offered an understanding of the world beyon
 d a patriarchal\, patriotic Chinese diaspora that he declined to explore f
 ully. The paper thus offers an intimate window into the historically conti
 ngent conceptual work that went into constructing the Chinese ‘diaspora
 ’\, and highlights the need to exercise caution in making ahistorical us
 e of social science studies of overseas Chinese.
LOCATION:Leslie Stephen Room\, Trinity Hall
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