The overseas Chinese : ethnicity in national context / edited by Francis L.K. Hsu and Hendrick Serrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hsu, L. K. Francis, 1909-

Serrie, Hendrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Foreign countries.

Chinese.

Chinese--Foreign countries--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vi, 241 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1998]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Overseas Chinese: Common Denominators of a Changing Ethnicity / Hendrick Serrie, Francis L. K. Hsu 1

Chapter 2 The Chinese in Calcutta: The Reproduction of Hakka Identity / Ellen Oxfeld 13

Chapter 3 The Chinese in Northern Thailand: A Preliminary Perspective on Kinship and Ethnicity / Ann Maxwell Hill 43

Chapter 4 The Chinese in the Philippines: From Aliens to Cultural Minority / George H. Weightman 65

Chapter 5 The Chinese in Brisbane: Segmentation and Integration / Lawrence W. Crissman, George Beattie, James Selby 87

Chapter 6 The Chinese in New Zealand: Persistence, Change and Innovation / Charles P. Sedgwick 115

Chapter 7 The Chinese in New York City: Kinship and Immigration / Bernard Wong 143

Chapter 8 Chinese Immigrant Children in New York City: Bicultural Conflicts / Betty Lee Sung 173

Chapter 9 Chinese Around the World: The Familial and the Familiar / Hendrick Serrie 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-226) and index.

ISBN:

076181163X

OCLC:

39069319