Chinese Enough For Ya? Disrupting and Transforming Notions of Chineseness through Chinesenough Tattoos

Chinese Enough For Ya? Disrupting and Transforming Notions of Chineseness through Chinesenough Tattoos

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Using interpretive methods of social inquiry, this thesis explores the socio-political significance of body tattoos made of Chinese-like text, which have recently become popular Western phenomena. It theorizes how contemporary Western tattooing complicates bodily and social boundaries, providing co...

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Main Author: Chan, Karen Bic Kwun
Other Authors: Titchkosky, Tanya
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Authenticity
Hybridity
Chineseness
Chinese
Chinese Tattoos
Tattooing
Body Modification
Flash Art
Arts Informed Inquiry
Arts Informed Research
Whiteness
Hanzi
Kanji
Diasporic Studies
Interpretive Social Inquiry
Carnivlesque
Cultural Appropriation
Chinese Canadian
Social space
Subtitling
Sense Experience
Absent Body
Third Space
Anti-fashion
Asian Studies
Asian American Studies
Asian Canadian Studies
Cultural Studies
Visual Culture
Phenomenology
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0344
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0304
0305
0332
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32914

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http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32914

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