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Beyond Borders Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma / Wen-Chin Chang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Wenjin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101469
- ISBN:
- 9780801453311
- OCLC:
- 904979076
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