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The title of Chap. 4, ‘The Complex,’ was derived in vivo from interview accounts. It captures the echoes of auto-orientalism that have emerged among the Repressed Chinese. The Repressed Chinese shared the profile of having grown up in non-English-speaking families with marginal childhood SES. Situational Chinese corporate representatives were employed as the case for comparison, coming from English-primacy and affluent or middle-class childhood SES. The Situational Chinese sought to transcend orientalist stereotypes of Chineseness.
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Lee, D. (2017). The Complex. In: Managing Chineseness. Frontiers of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58258-4_4
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