The Imprint of Drifting:Ethnic Imagination and Construction of Identity from the Diaspora of Chinese Mainlander's Second Generation

• Main Authors: Fu-mei Sheu, 許富美
• Other Authors: Shiao Jung Kuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96794295311140964553

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 音像紀錄研究所 === 96 === The title of this report: ”the imprint of drifting: ethnic imagination and construction of identity from the Diaspora of Chinese Mainlander’s second generation, ” reveals that the purpose of this paper is to explore more dynamic and diversified dimensions underlying the Diaspora of Chinese Mainlander’s second generation. The coexisting documentary film, entitled as “The Imprint of Drifting,” documents how the experience of the exile from the first generation, through family socialization and political economical perplexity, reproduces an analogous yet alienated kind of Chinese Mainlander’s identity, a so-called “the imprint of drifting”. Even as a second-generation Chinese Mainlander who wants to transcend his/her limitations and boundaries, his/her social and political practices are still restrained within a patterned kind of actions or reactions. Our exploration of the second-generation Chinese Mainlanders, investigates different spheres of them, such as household, public, and private domains, in order to enhance our understanding of this ethnic group. Both empirically and theoretically, this report, together with the documentary film, offer us a much more complicated picture of the second-generation Chinese Mainlanders, in which has seldom been shown in the documentary films of Taiwan before.