Chinese Overseas

Author : Wang Gungwu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674044814

Get Book

The Chinese Overseas by Wang Gungwu Pdf

The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and settling overseas, the earthbound Chinese--first traders, then peasants and workers--eventually found new sources of livelihood abroad. The practice of sojourning, being always temporarily away from home, was the answer the Chinese overseas found to deal with imperial and orthodox concerns. Today their challenge is to find an alternative to either returning or assimilating by seeking a new kind of autonomy in a world that will come to acknowledge the ideal of multicultural states. In pursuing this story, international scholar Wang Gungwu uncovers some major themes of global history: the coming together of Asian and European civilizations, the ambiguities of ethnicity and diasporic consciousness, and the tension between maintaining one's culture and assimilation.

Author : Hong Liu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 041533859X

Get Book

The Chinese Overseas by Hong Liu Pdf

Author : Glen Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136638572

Get Book

Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China by Glen Peterson Pdf

Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who "returned" to the People’s Republic in order to pursue higher education and to serve their motherland. In this book, Glen Peterson describes the nature of the official state project by which domestic Overseas Chinese were incorporated into the economic, political and social structures of the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s, examines the multiple and contradictory meanings associated with being "domestic Overseas Chinese", and explores how "domestic Overseas Chineseness" as political category shaped social experiences and identities. This book fills an important gap in the literature on Chinese migration and Chinese transnationalism and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of these subjects, as well as Chinese history and Asian Studies more generally.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814762649

Get Book

The Rise of China and the Chinese Overseas by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

With the rise of China and massive new migrations, China has adjusted its policy towards the Chinese overseas in Southeast Asia and beyond. This book deals with Beijing’s policy which has been a response to the external events involving the Chinese overseas as well as the internal needs of China. It appears that a rising China considers the Chinese overseas as a source of socio-political and economic capital and would extend its protection to them whenever this is not in conflict with its core national interest. The impacts on and the responses of the relevant countries, especially those in Southeast Asia, are also examined

Author : Elena Barabantseva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136927362

Get Book

Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism by Elena Barabantseva Pdf

Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project, whose membership criteria have evolved historically. By looking specifically at the ascribed roles of China’s ethnic minorities and overseas Chinese in successive state-led modernisation efforts, This book offers new perspectives on the changing boundaries of the Chinese nation. It places domestic nation-building and transnational identity politics in a single analytical framework, and examines how they interact to frame the national project of the Chinese state. By exploring the processes taking place at the ethnic and territorial margins of the Chinese nation-state, the author provides a new perspective on China’s national modernisation project, clarifying the processes occurring across national boundaries and illustrating how China has negotiated the basis for belonging to its national project under the challenge to modernise amid both domestic and global transformations. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics, Chinese politics, nationalism, transnationalism and regionalism.

Author : Chinese Heritage Center (Singapore)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002854983

Get Book

The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas by Chinese Heritage Center (Singapore) Pdf

The first of its kind, The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas provides a panoramic and comparative view across past and present overseas Chinese communities world wide. The Chinese diaspora has inherited mainland experiences, and they have modified and enriched them by transplantation to other continents and civilizations. This book includes the most important aspects of these experiences. The volume is geographically and thematically organized. The largest section consists of country-by-country profiles of individual Chinese communities. The rest divides into thematic sections on origins, migration, institutions, ties to China, and interethnic relations. Each of the sections is meant to be read continuously. They are accessible, scholarly, and authoritative. Complex material is clearly and vividly presented in text, boxed features, maps, graphs, tables, and archival and contemporary pictures. Chinese proper names and terms are identified with their characters in a glossary, while full references to Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian works are given in the bibliography.

Author : Gungwu Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022035441

Get Book

China and the Chinese Overseas by Gungwu Wang Pdf

Chronologically arranged, this compilation of self-contained essays, lectures and papers provides insight into a complex issue - the true identity of the overseas Chinese.

Author : Bernard Wong,Chee-Beng TAN
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351866606

Get Book

China's Rise and the Chinese Overseas by Bernard Wong,Chee-Beng TAN Pdf

Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world. Traditionally, the study of immigrant communities has focused on internal factors, such as the leadership and social organization of the actors inside the communities. This book, however, turns attention to the exogenous factors, which have helped shape the lives of the Chinese diaspora. In doing so, it provides a valuable contribution to the recent literature, which focuses on the effect of globalisation on the Chinese overseas. Using a number of empirical case studies, including the San Francisco Bay, Canada, South Africa and Hungary, it provides an investigation into how China’s contemporary position in the world has affected the identity of the various locales of the Chinese in different continents. Whilst demonstrating the implications of China’s rise on patterns of circular migration and transnational movements, it also explores how the social and economic relations between Chinese communities and their host and ancestral countries have changed. Ultimately, it highlights how China’s rise has brought new economic opportunities and political clout for the Chinese overseas, but at the same time, has created new stereotypes and racial images by association. As an in-depth study of Chinese societies as well as current migration trends, this book will be useful for students of Chinese Studies, Ethnic Studies, Anthropology and Sociology.

Author : Elizabeth Sinn
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789622094468

Get Book

The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas by Elizabeth Sinn Pdf

The papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half century after the Second World War, from many new perspectives. Some papers raise questions about the Chinese diaspora in broad conceptual terms, and inquire into the meaning of being Chinese outside China. Other papers examine life in local communities, analysing how historical and contemporary circumstances affect their lives and the ways they negotiate their identity in the host country. In-depth case studies further bring out the complexity of the subject by identifying the range of variables, including the social, economic, political and cultural characteristics of the places of origin and destinations, as well as emigration and immigration policies, which affect the patterns of migration and the nature of settlement in any place at any time. This is especially highlighted in chapters using a comparative approach. With scholars from different disciplines, using different types of data, methodologies and theoretical tools, the richness of the subject matter becomes apparent. This volume will no doubt go a long way both to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Chinese overseas, and, by showing the many possibilities for further investigation, to strengthen Chinese overseas as a field of study.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814365918

Get Book

Migration, Indigenization and Interaction by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Pt. 1. Migration and globalization. ch. 1. Migration, localization and cultural exchange : global perspectives of Chinese overseas. ch. 2. Three cultures of migration. ch. 3. The Huagong, the Huashang and the diaspora -- pt. 2. North America. ch. 4. Immigrants from China to Canada : issues of supply and demand of human capital. ch. 5. Deconstructing parental involvement : Chinese immigrants in Canada. ch. 6. Migration, ethnicity and citizenry of Chinese Americans in selected regions of the US -- pt. 3. South and Southeast Asia. ch. 7. Territory and centrality among the Chinese in Kolkata. ch. 8. Examining the demographic developments relating to the ethnic Chinese in Vietnam since 1954. ch. 9. Integration, indigenization, hybridization and localization of the ethnic Chinese minority in the Philippines. ch. 10. Elephant vs. tiger : a comparative analysis of entrepreneurship of two prominent Southeast Asian beer corporations -- pt. 4. China and Chinese overseas. ch. 11. Migration and China's urban reading public : shifting representations of overseas Chinese in Shanghai's Dongfang Zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) 1904-1948. ch. 12. Return Chinese migrants or Canadian diaspora? Exploring the experience of Chinese Canadians in China

Author : Tracy C. Barrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857721181

Get Book

The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia by Tracy C. Barrett Pdf

As Qing Dynasty China disintegrated, economic hardship and civil disorder led to millions of Chinese men and women seeking their fortunes abroad, many journeying south into French Indochina. These emigres settled into tight-knit communities called huiguan: organisations which closely mirrored the religious, social and economic constitution of their own places of origin. Here, Tracy Barrett sheds light on the overseas Chinese communities in French Indochina and the interactions between them and French colonial authorities. She also addresses the nature, scope and effectiveness of the congregation system - an institution designed by the French to control Indochina's overseas Chinese but eventually extended across the greater French empire as a means of monitoring 'foreign Asiatics'. Including a close analysis of French colonial law and of the economic and social networks between Chinese settler communities across Indonesia, "The Chinese Diaspora in South East Asia" provides an important insight into the characteristics of Chinese migration.

Author : Glen Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136638565

Get Book

Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China by Glen Peterson Pdf

Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who "returned" to the People’s Republic in order to pursue higher education and to serve their motherland. In this book, Glen Peterson describes the nature of the official state project by which domestic Overseas Chinese were incorporated into the economic, political and social structures of the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s, examines the multiple and contradictory meanings associated with being "domestic Overseas Chinese", and explores how "domestic Overseas Chineseness" as political category shaped social experiences and identities. This book fills an important gap in the literature on Chinese migration and Chinese transnationalism and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of these subjects, as well as Chinese history and Asian Studies more generally.

Author : James Jiann Hua To
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004272286

Get Book

Qiaowu by James Jiann Hua To Pdf

For over 150 years, China’s interactions with its diaspora have evolved according to the domestic and international geopolitical environment. This relationship (broadly described as qiaowu) is most visible in the form of cultural and economic activities; however, its main purpose is to cultivate, influence, and manage ethnic Chinese as part of a global transnational project to rally support for its proponents. Qiaowu: Extra-Territorial Policies for the Overseas Chinese compares the rival policies and practices of the Chinese Communist Party with the Nationalist Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party governments of Taiwan. Political scientist James Jiann Hua To analyzes the role that qiaowu plays in harnessing the power of strategic overseas communities, and highlights the implications for China’s foreign relations.

Author : Chee-Beng Tan,Colin Storey,Julia Zimmerman
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9629963280

Get Book

Chinese Overseas by Chee-Beng Tan,Colin Storey,Julia Zimmerman Pdf

'The issue of Chinese diaspora is a fascinating phenomenon in the midst of globalism, and there is a growing interest in studies of overseas Chinese, not only overseas but in China itself. This volume, the result of an international conference on Chinese overseas studies, deals with issues of research and documentation of Chinese migration and migrants. It brings together the efforts of scholars and librarians in examining the research and documentation of Chinese overseas. Documentation must go hand in hand with research, and this book reiterates the need for greater cooperation between librarians and scholars. In addition to discussion on research and library and archival documentation, the book also takes a look at Chinese overseas in different parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia and North America, as well as South Africa and Cuba.

Author : I. Rae,M. Witzel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230593121

Get Book

The Overseas Chinese of South East Asia by I. Rae,M. Witzel Pdf

The 60million Chinese who live outside of China have long been an economic powerhouse in their own right. Managing in South-East Asia is not like managing anywhere else. This book describes their communities and environments in which they work and emphasises the need for cultural understanding as a pre-requisite for business success.