At Home in the Chinese Diaspora
Title | At Home in the Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2008-01-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
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At Home in the Chinese Diaspora explores issues of memory and how memories are deployed and negotiated to re-establish a sense of belonging. This volume breaks new ground in analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation, and remembering home through the focal point of memories. Some chapters focus conceptually on memories as social expressions, a locus of place, cultural capital, and imagination. Others explore the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories through the world of literature and cinema.
At Home in the Chinese Diaspora
Title | At Home in the Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | K. Kuah-Pearce |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 259 |
Release | 2008-01-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230591620 |
This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.
Chinese Diasporas
Title | Chinese Diasporas PDF eBook |
Author | Steven B. Miles |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2020-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107179920 |
A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.
Hua Song
Title | Hua Song PDF eBook |
Author | Suchen Christine Lim |
Publisher | LONG RIVER PRESS |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781592650439 |
Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.
Memories of a Future Home
Title | Memories of a Future Home PDF eBook |
Author | Lok Siu |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2007-08-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804767859 |
While the history of Asian migration to Latin America is well documented, we know little about the contemporary experience of diasporic Asians in this part of the world. Memories of a Future Home offers an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct a home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations—Panama, their nation of residence; China/Taiwan, their ethnic homeland; and the United States, the colonial force. Juxtaposing the concepts of diaspora and citizenship, this book offers an innovative framework to help us understand how diasporic subjects engage the politics of cultural and political belonging in a transnational context. It does so by examining the interaction between continually shifting geopolitical dynamics, as well as the maneuvers undertaken by diasporic people to negotiate and transform those conditions. In essence, this book explores the contingent citizenship experienced by diasporic Chinese and their efforts to imagine and construct "home" in diaspora.
Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora
Title | Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Chee-Beng Tan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 530 |
Release | 2013-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136230955 |
With around 40 million people worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China which began in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants, many of whom were well educated, have had a major impact on the local societies and on China. This is the first interdisciplinary Handbook to examine the Chinese diaspora, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the processes and effects of Chinese migration under the headings of: Population and distribution Mainland China and Taiwan’s policies on the Chinese overseas Migration: past and present Economic and political involvement Localization, transnational networks and identity Education, literature and media The Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora brings together a significant number of specialists from a number of diverse disciplines and covers the major areas of the study of Chinese overseas. This Handbook is therefore an important and valuable reference work for students, scholars and policy makers worldwide who wish to understand the global phenomena of Chinese migration, transnational connections and their cultural and identity transformation.
The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia
Title | The Chinese Diaspora in South-East Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy C. Barrett |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2012-02-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857721186 |
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.