Eunice Irwin

The Hybrid Tsinoys

“Uytanlet's work is a seminal study, employing twenty-first-century anthropology to discover identity and change among Hybrid Tsinoys--the contemporary Chinese Filipinos in Manila whose cultural heritage and self-understanding is complex. . . . Applying a postmodern approach, the author links theories from the sub-fields--ethnicity, hybridity, and sociocultural construction--to devise a comprehensive research strategy and to create an interpretive tool to enable her to engage in a robust discussion of findings from the personal narratives given by 77 Tsinoy participating in an ethnographic research questionnaire. The result is a highly reliable profile showing diverse identity phenomena among Hybrid Tsinoys.”