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Coming home to a foreign country : Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 / Ong Soon Keong.
LIBRA DS797.26.X536 O64 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ong, Soon Keong, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Cornell East Asia series ; 207.
- Cornell East Asia series ; number 207
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Return migrants--China--Xiamen (Xiamen Shi).
- Return migrants.
- Return migration.
- History.
- China--Xiamen (Xiamen Shi).
- Return migration--China--Xiamen (Xiamen Shi)--History.
- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China).
- Emigration and immigration.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 226 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "'How did migration affect those who moved and the places the emigrants moved through?' Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses this question by focusing on the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) and the Chinese who migrated out of China-mostly to Southeast Asia-and then returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Defining Xiamen : Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839-1842)
- Opening for Business : Xiamen as a Treaty Port
- Facilitating Migration : Xiamen as a Migration Hub
- Manipulating Identities : State and Opportunities in Xiamen
- Transforming Xiamen : Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s
- Making Home : Xiamen as Destination and Home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ong, Soon Keong, 1969- Coming home to a foreign country
- ISBN:
- 9781501756184
- 1501756184
- OCLC:
- 1198088254
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