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Author Trémon, Anne-Christine, 1976- author

Title Diaspora space-time : transformations of a Chinese emigrant community / Anne-Christine Trémon
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents A globalized lineage -- The shifting landscape of donations -- Collective funds and the moral economy of surplus -- Saving the ancestral sites, mobilizing for the public good -- Reversed feng shui and sociodicies of (im)mobility -- Ritual renewal and spatiotemporal fusion -- Returning to one's roots: journeys and quests -- Global brotherhood without close kin -- Conclusion: Chinese globalization and the changing value of scales
Summary "This book explores the transformations of a former emigrant village that has become part of the city of Shenzhen and its booming economy. It examines the community's changing relationship with its diaspora around the world over the long twentieth century and in the context of China's contemporary rise."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2022)
Subject Chinese diaspora.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Chinese diaspora
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
China.
History.
Asian history.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Anthropology.
History.
SUBJECT China -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
China -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 21st century
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022007262
ISBN 9781501765551
1501765558
9781501765568
1501765566