Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing Shanghai and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants foreign students settlers permanent residents citizens and-above all-travelers. They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor journalist historian poet choreographer film scholar tai-chi expert translator writer literary scholar.