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Upriver journeys : diaspora and empire in southern China, 1570-1850 / Steven B. Miles.
LIBRA HB2114.X5 M55 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miles, Steven B., 1964- author.
- Series:
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 106.
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 106
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Migrations--History.
- Chinese.
- Migration, Internal--China--Xi River Region--History.
- Migration, Internal.
- River life--China--History.
- River life.
- History.
- Chinese--Migrations.
- Xi River Region (China)--History.
- Xi River Region (China).
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in what would become a global diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- I. Imperial intermediaries: Officials: agents of empire in the upriver frontier, 1570-1740
- Students: migration and civil examinations, 1570-1760
- Merchants: commercial networks and state support, 1700-1850
- II. Diasporic families: Husbands and wives in the West River basin
- Upriver settlers and delta lineages.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674975200
- 0674975200
- OCLC:
- 953792533
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