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Author Li, Guotong, author

Title Migrating Fujianese : ethnic, family, and gender identities in an early modern maritime world / by Guotong Li
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Women and gender in China studies ; volume 7
Women and gender in China studies ; v. 7.
Contents Part 1. Fujianese Coastal Society in the Context of Qing Rule -- Lobbying at the Court : The Minxue (Fujian Learning) Network -- Transforming Customs : Ethnicity and Gender in the Imperial Civilizing Project -- Piracy Plots : Marine Predators in the Interregional Trade Network -- Part 2. Great Families at Home and on the Road -- Competing for Local Influence : Leading Families in Zhangpu County -- Imagining the Empire : Fujian Guixiu (Genteel Ladies) at Home and on the Road -- Sharing the Story : Imagination across Boundaries in the Lychee Mirror -- Part 3. Overland and Overseas Migration -- Survival Strategies : Gender, Ethnicity, and Kinship -- Going Overseas : Remittances and Letters across the Ocean -- Conclusion: Fujian in the Maritime World -- Appendix: Fujian Guixiu Poems Cited in Chapter 5 -- Glossary
Summary "With the Fujian coast at its center, this book reveals the intellectual, migratory and gendered relationships that tied Fijian to the Chinese imperial domain and to its overseas networks. This Fujian study also offers ways to analyze local histories of late imperial China from a more global perspective. Based on a wide range of sources, such as business contracts, legal documents, women's writings, and folksongs, Migrating Fujianese elucidates China's southeast coast and its migration patterns. Examining this multi-ethnic migrant community through the lens of ethnicity shows the complex operation of linked chain migration (overseas male emigration and overland family migration by the ethnic She people) and its impact on the gender relations and family strategies of the coastal people. The study argues that examination of Fujianese migration through the lenses of gender and ethnicity is crucial to understanding the relationship between the flow of people and the society nourishing that flow"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Immigrants -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
Sex role -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
Ethnicity -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
Families -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
Learning and scholarship -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
Social networks -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Families
Immigrants
International relations
Learning and scholarship
Sex role
Social conditions
Social networks
Migration
Gesellschaft
Ethnische Identität
SUBJECT Fujian Sheng (China) -- Ethnic relations -- History
Fujian Sheng (China) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Fujian Sheng (China) -- Relations
Fujian Sheng (China) -- Social conditions
Subject China -- Fujian Sheng
Fujian
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016035812
ISBN 9789004327214
9004327215