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While the usual norms and rules of home were suspended, many Xiameners were in a position to reconsider their social identity and social position within a wider value context described here as the ‘moral landscape’ of globalization. The weakening of rules associated with the social structures of home led to the awareness of values that were associated with home and the ability to reconsider and replace one’s self within this moral landscape.
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© 2014 Angela Lehmann
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Lehmann, A. (2014). Fear and Difference. In: Transnational Lives in China. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137319159_4
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