.#SarahNg: Chinese migration database has tracked 1/3 of the population also form "hegemony of memory via diaspora" -- talk more w Sarah! at ngsm AT uci DOT edu #HASTAC2019
.#SarahNg: Forest City Project ex of what redefines hybrid Muslim / Malaysian / Chinese identities into new border >> New Silk Road project uses shared memory to envision future through particular figure / Old Silk Rd as its past before Euro-colonialism #HASTAC2019
.#SarahNg these new and old borders of imperialism become ascribed on the body as where you belong becomes more hazy #HASTAC2019
.#SarahNg: ... "home" then becomes more fixed/reaffirmed against Other as propagation of the "Chinese Dream" (diff than Amer Dream) whereby Chinese become exporters of cultural identity by appealing to specific figures like Zeeghee (sp.) >> redefines borders/nations #HASTAC2019
.#SarahNg: "One Belt Road" Chinese building slogan re-invokes "old Silk Road" as a historic symbol as a banner for peaceful development and to appeal to imperial narratives & 1st wave of Chinese immigrants > home becomes more complicated w hybrid identities ... #HASTAC2019
Greetings from "Social Media and Databases": #SarahNg in Informatics at UCIrvine kicking us off w "Neocolonialist Databases and Negotiated Bodies #HASTAC2019