Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese; people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar; and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography examines how the Sino-Burmese have lived in between states; cognizant of the insecurity in their unclear political status but aware of the social and economic possibilities in this gray zone between two oppressive regimes.For the Sino-Burmese in Rangoon; the labels of Chinese and Tayout (the Burmese equivalent of Chinese) fail to recognize the linguistic and cultural differences between the separate groups that have settled in the city�Hokkien; Cantonese; and Hakka�and conflate this diverse population with the state actions of the People�s Republic of China and the supposed dominance of the overseas Chinese network. In this first English-language study of the Sino-Burmese; Mapping Chinese Rangoon examines the concepts of ethnicity; territory; and nation in an area where ethnicity is inextricably tied to state violence.
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