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Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China / Glen Peterson.
Penn Museum Library DS732 .P47 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Glen, 1956-
- Series:
- Chinese worlds ; 29.
- Chinese worlds ; 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Foreign countries--History--20th century.
- Chinese.
- Transnationalism.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Return migration--Social aspects.
- Return migration.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Chinese--Foreign countries.
- China--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- China.
- Return migration--China--History--20th century.
- Return migration--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.
- Transnationalism--Social aspects--China--History--20th century.
- China--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Summary:
- Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as 'domestic Overseas Chinese'. They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who 'returned' to the People's Republic in order to pursue higher education and to serve their motherland. In this book, Glen Peterson describes the nature of the official state project by which domestic Overseas Chinese were incorporated into the economic, political and social structures of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, examines the multiple and contradictory meanings associated with being 'domestic Overseas Chinese', and explores how 'domestic Overseas Chineseness' as political category shaped social experiences and identities.
- This book fills an important gap in the literature on Chinese migration and Chinese transnationalism and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of these subjects, as well as Chinese history and Asian Studies more generally. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 Transnational families under siege 27
- 3 Youdai: the making of a special category 55
- 4 Open for business: the quest for investment and remittances 75
- 5 Patriots, refugees, tycoons and students: 'returning' to China in the 1950s 102
- 6 Socialist transformation and the end of youdai 138
- 7 Cultural Revolution and beyond 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415616700
- 9780415616706
- 9780203804148
- 0203804147
- OCLC:
- 676728509
- Publisher Number:
- 99945109241
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