University of California, Santa Cruz
Graduate Student, History
Ph.D. Candidate
Thesis Title: Nation, Migration and Governance: Cantonese Migrants to Peru and the Making of Chinese Overseas Nationalism, 1847-1949
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Gail Hershatter
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About
I am a student of Modern Chinese History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. My minor fields are Modern Latin American History and World History. I am also trained with an outside field in Sociology, focusing on Macro-Sociology and World-Systems Analysis.
My research and teaching interests include Asia-Pacific-Americas, Region-Making, Spatial Imaginaries, Migration/Diasporas, Social Movements and Revolution, and Nationalism and Nation-Making.
At present, I am working on my dissertation, which is a translocal analysis of the making of Chinese Overseas spaces and nationalism within the broader context of Pacific formation. My research builds on contemporary transnational studies of Chinese migrations and identity formation by continuing to explore the discursive construction of migrants as citizens and as agents of nation-making and nationalism on both sides of the Pacific. At the same time, my work examines more nuanced local and translocal understandings and practices of identity-making that were a critical part of Chinese nationalism and nation-making.
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