Coming home to a foreign country : Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 / Ong Soon Keong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ong, Soon Keong, 1969- author.

Series:

Cornell East Asia series ; Number 207.

Cornell East Asia series ; Number 207

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration--China--Xiamen (Xiamen Shi)--History.

Return migrants--China--Xiamen (Xiamen Shi).

Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China)--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. 'Coming Home to a Foreign Country' addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, the book explores the multilayered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Measures, Weights, and Currencies

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Defining Xiamen: Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839–1842)

2. Opening for Business: Xiamen as a Treaty Port

3. Facilitating Migration: Xiamen as a Migration Hub

4. Manipulating Identities: States and Opportunities in Xiamen

5. Transforming Xiamen: Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s

6. Making Home: Xiamen as Destination and Home

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501756207

1501756206

OCLC:

1198086162