Voyage through childhood into the adult world: an overview of Chinese American children and youth in cinema.
Literature from various social science and humanities disciplines has pointed to the fear, stress, threats, and hardship frequently experienced by children of immigrants. In coping with the stereotyped images such as 'the model minority' and 'the perpetual foreigner', the subject of Chinese American...
| Published in: | Social Identities Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 212 - 229 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2021
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