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In this Chapter, occidentalist state discourse will be compared with the subtexts that undergird the Born-Again Chinese worldview. ‘The boys wear high heels with platforms,’ derived in vivo from state discourse, echoes Born-Again Chinese occidentalism. In contrast, the Integrated Chinese have chosen to reconcile the interests and conflicts that had resulted from cultural differences. Coming from slightly less affluent middle-class childhood socioeconomic backgrounds than the Born-Again Chinese, the Integrated Chinese grew up in Chinese Dialect-speaking families, which differentiated them from the Mandarin-primacy linguistic profile of the Born-Again Chinese.
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Lee, D. (2017). The Boys Wear High Heels with Platforms. In: Managing Chineseness. Frontiers of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58258-4_5
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