Tan Kah Kee and overseas Chinese investment
In my post for Asian-Nation about Mainland and Taiwan influence in overseas Chinese schools, I wrote about a passage from my Chinese school days that was clearly Nationalist propaganda. Recently, [...]
Balancing American, Mainland, and Taiwanese influences in Chinese language schools
C.N. Le of Asian-Nation has graciously invited me to contribute to his blog, which was one of the first (if not the first) sociology blog looking specifically at Asian Americans. [...]
Blacks, Latinos, and the push to learn Chinese
I include the trailer for Speaking in Tongues because although the bilingual education debate in the United States is usually focused around Spanish speakers, the filmmakers chose to emphasize Mandarin [...]
Breaking down the “British Asian” category
Do people of South Asian descent in the UK identify with the label “British Asian”? Is “British Asian” a good analytical category for researchers and policy makers interested in the [...]
Little Harvard-to-Be Prep School Academy
In writing my master’s thesis on Chinese language schools, I’m reading tons of books and articles on ethnic language schools and their cousins, ethnic cram schools. Sociologists and education scholars [...]
My mobile ethnography toolkit
Fellow ethnographers, how do you use technology in the field? I have only had a smartphone for the past three months and a tablet for two weeks, but so far [...]
Ethnoburban development in Melbourne
The Age ran an article this week about the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, which is quickly becoming an enclave for affluent, well-educated Chinese migrants. Currently, Mainland China is the [...]