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The Nation, the Group, the Individual: Towards an Embodied Rhetorical History of Early 20th Century Chinese University Students in America
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| 자료유형 | 학위논문 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | The Nation, the Group, the Individual: Towards an Embodied Rhetorical History of Early 20th Century Chinese University Students in America. |
| 개인저자 | Tang, Hin Heng Antonio. |
| 단체저자명 | The University of Wisconsin - Madison. English. |
| 발행사항 | [S.l.]: The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2019. |
| 발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
| 형태사항 | 267 p. |
| 기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-06A. Dissertation Abstract International |
| ISBN | 9781392665091 |
| 학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019. |
| 일반주기 |
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: A.
Advisor: Young, Morris. |
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| 요약 | The Chinese living in America under the Exclusion Act of 1882 endured discriminatory practices that emerged from a deeply-embedded racial prejudice. While studies have examined the ways Chinese communities protested their unfair treatment, the rhetorical activities of Chinese students studying in America have received far less investigation. Although their individual sojourn in America lasted a handful of years, their collective presence spanned three decades, a time in which they organized an alliance, held conferences, and maintained a monthly magazine. I argue that the Alliance tried to reshape popular images of the Chinese-as pollutants and deviants-through embodied practices that pivoted on a transcalar understanding of the self: self as nation, and nation as self. Chapter 1 positions the student writings in Chinese Students' Monthly as embodied Asian American Rhetoric and an archive from which an understanding of the transcalar and transnational nature of their rhetoric can be built. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 set the exigence of their activistic practices: Sandwiched between the directive to reform China and the impulse to rehabilitate American images of the Chinese, the students further cemented their transcalar ethos through withstanding social, economic, and legal discrimination alongside their U.S.-based peers in America. Chapter 4 recounts a history of concerted embodied activism from the 1910s that involved public speaking and writing, performances, and social events, while Chapter 5 expounds on transcalar rhetoric through examining two practices that purpose to demonstrate a strong and unified Chinese body. Specifically, these students challenged the trope of a weak and fragmented China through their active participation in club activities and officer elections. Through athletic meets and articles calling for curricular/extracurricular balance, the students also strove to efface the image of the "sick man of Asia." Chapter 6 provides a further, longitudinal example of transcalar rhetoric as it developed through the decades in the form of the annual Alliance conferences. Recognizing these Chinese students' activistic practices is necessary for a more multifaceted understanding of early Asian-American rhetorical history and of the transcalar nature of embodied rhetorics among other temporary immigrants. |
| 일반주제명 | Rhetoric. Asian literature. Asian Americans. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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