Chinese American women's sense of identity is a by-product of othering in a thread of sky.

• Main Author: Nur Ashikin Kamaruddin.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50186
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A Chinese American is discernibly Chinese by ethnicity and American by nationality. The affiliation to two cultures, by birth and by “origin” places the Chinese American in a limbo as they attempt to seek a sense of belonging. The access to a ‘pure’ culture like that of American or Chinese is denied...