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1 online resource (xxv, 277 pages) : illustrations |
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Five Southeast Asian Chinese empire-builders : commonalities and differences / Jamie Mackie -- Providers, protectors, guardians : migration and reconstruction of masculinities / Ray Hibbins -- Tasting the night : food, ethnic transaction, and the pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia / Yao Souchou -- Multiple identities among the returned overseas Chinese in Hong Kong / James Chin Kong -- Chinese education and changing national and cultural identity among overseas Chinese in modern Japan : a study of Chûka dôbon Gakkô [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe / Benjamin Ng Wai-ming -- Chinese education in prewar Singapore : a preliminary analysis of factors affecting the development of Chinese vernacular schools / Wee Tong Bao -- Hokkien immigrant society and modern Chinese education in British Malaya / Yen Ching-Hwang -- Search for modernity : the Chinese in Sabah and English education / Danny Wong Tze-Ken -- Language, education, and occupational attainment of foreign-trained Chinese and Polish professional immigrants in Toronto, Canada / Li Zong -- Career and family factors in intention for permanent settlement in Australia / Siew-Ean Khoo & Anita Mak -- No longer migrants : southern New Zealand Chinese in the twentieth century / Niti Pawakapan -- Singapore Chinese society in transition : reflections on the cultural implications of modern education / Lee Guan Kin |
| Summary |
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result, and the durability of the Singapore economy during this same crisis, have helped to sustain this attention. The study of the overseas Chinese has become a global enterprise, raising new theoretical problems and empirical challenges. New case studies of overseas Chinese, such as those on communities in North America, Cuba, India and South Africa, continually unveil different perspectives. New kinds of transnational connectivities linking Chinese communities are also being identified. It is now possible to make broader generalizations of a Chinese diaspora, on a global basis. Further, the intensifying study of the overseas Chinese has stimulated renewed intellectual vigour in other areas of research. The transnational and transregional activities of overseas Chinese, for example, pose serious challenges to analytical concepts of regional divides such as that between East and Southeast Asia. Despite the increased attention, new data, and the changing theoretical paradigms, basic questions concerning the overseas Chinese remain. The papers in this volume seek to understand the overseas Chinese migrants not just in terms of the overall Chinese diaspora per se, but also local Chinese migrants adapting to local societies, in different national contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-277) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Chinese diaspora
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Chinese -- Foreign countries
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Chinezen.
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Diaspora.
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Migranten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Charney, Michael W
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Yeoh, Brenda S. A
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Tong, Chee Kiong
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| ISBN |
9789812795564 |
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9812795561 |
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1281935913 |
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9781281935915 |
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9786611935917 |
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6611935916 |
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