Browsing by Author "Chan, Carol"

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    Between the Sacred and Secular: The Role of Chinese Popular Deities in Creating Thirdspaces in Chinese Restaurants of Santiago de Chile
    (2020) Chan, Carol; Elvira Rios, Maria
    Material manifestations of the Chinese popular deities, Guanyin and Guan Gong, are ubiquitous in Cantonese-Chinese restaurants globally. Yet studies of Chinese popular religion among overseas Chinese have seldom focused on the diverse significance of these deities to Chinese migrants, nor the use of restaurant-spaces to house these deities. This article examines the presence and powers of such deities in Chinese restaurants of Santiago de Chile. We seek to understand how the presence or absence of Guanyin and Guan Gong figures specifically shapes migrant Chinese restauranteurs and workers' experience of the restaurants as particular kinds of protected, sacred/secular spaces, and how these deities might also affectively shape the restauranteurs' ways of being and inhabiting the restaurants. Based on semi-structured interviews with Chinese shopkeepers and workers, observation and photography of the spatial organization of 26 restaurants and the aesthetics of their deities, we argue that these restaurants are more than just their primary sources of livelihood. We argue that they approximate Soja's "thirdspaces" (1996), which on the one hand mediate their interactions with the city and its other residents, and on the other hand mediate relationships between humans in the earthly world and deities in the "other" parallel world.
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    Chineseness in Chile: shifting representations during the Twenty-First century
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Montt Strabucchi, María; Ríos Peñafiel, Maria Elvira; Chan, Carol
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    El imaginario de lo chino en las revistas magazinescas chilenas de principios del siglo XX
    (2021) Ríos Peñafiel, María Elvira; Montt Strabucchi, María; Chan, Carol
    El aniversario de los cien años de Independencia de Chile, en 1910, remarcó el triunfo de la libertad nacional para el país, pero también un desafío para la modernización y la construcción de identidad. El mayor desarrollo de los medios de comunicación y la opinión pública se combinó con debates intelectuales por discutir una identidad chilena, proceso que reveló las tendencias e influencias sobre la concepción de lo otro. En ese contexto encontramos las revistas magazinescas en las que, según se propone en este artículo, es posible identificar el imaginario chino disponible en el periodo. Una revisión de estas revistas durante la primera mitad del siglo XX evidencia la presencia de estereotipos que permearon transversal y profundamente en la sociedad y que aún persisten en Chile contemporáneo.