15. What Does it Mean to be Chinese? Studying Values as Perceived by United States Chinese Immigrants and Their Children

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	15. What Does it Mean to be Chinese? Studying Values as Perceived by United States Chinese Immigrants and Their Children
	Sandel, T. L.; Wong Lowe, A.; Chao, W-Y
	2012-09-01
Source Publication	Values Frameworks at the Theoretical Crossroads of Culture, Intercultural Research, Volume 4
Publication Place	Shanghai
Publisher	Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
Pages	529-558
Abstract	The purpose of this chapter is to study the sustained cultural patterns as evident in the values and beliefs of Chinese immigrants (to be defined below) living in the United States, people who may be in a good position to describe their own culture because they have crossed cultural boundaries and, therefore, engage in intercultural communication on a routine basis. In particular, it aims to discover the values and beliefs that are brought to the U.S. not only across the geographic distance that separates the U.S. from China and other places in Asia, but also across the gap of time, as parents and grandparents teach and socialize children growing up in the U.S. We focus on values and beliefs because they guide and shape behavior (Harkness & Super, 1996), at the same time values and beliefs are at the core of culture and less likely to change among acculturating individuals and groups (Gordon, 1964; Hall, 1976). Furthermore, our interest is not in testing or analyzing a system of values defined a priori, rather we want to discover the value system as understood and discussed by this group of participants. In brief, this study aims to understand “What does it mean to be Chinese?” when living in a non-Chinese environment. It also asks if what it means to be Chinese is the same for members of different generations. Presumably, a grandmother who has lived most of her life in China and spent only a year or several months in the U.S. has a different understanding of identity and what it means to be Chinese than would her 10-year-old grandson who was born in the U.S., and except for trips to China during summer months, has spent most of his life in the U.S. What are these differences? We ask if these cross-generational differences impact others and to what extent they work in a dialectical relationship.
Keyword	Values Chinese Americans Intercultural Communication
Language	英語English
ISBN	9787544628815
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	9353
Document Type	Book chapter
Collection	DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
Corresponding Author	Sandel, T. L.
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Sandel, T. L.,Wong Lowe, A.,Chao, W-Y. 15. What Does it Mean to be Chinese? Studying Values as Perceived by United States Chinese Immigrants and Their Children[M]. Values Frameworks at the Theoretical Crossroads of Culture, Intercultural Research, Volume 4, Shanghai:Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2012, 529-558.
APA	Sandel, T. L.., Wong Lowe, A.., & Chao, W-Y (2012). 15. What Does it Mean to be Chinese? Studying Values as Perceived by United States Chinese Immigrants and Their Children. Values Frameworks at the Theoretical Crossroads of Culture, Intercultural Research, Volume 4, 529-558.

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