The last half century of Chinese overseas / edited by Elizabeth Sinn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinn, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Foreign countries--Congresses.

Chinese.

China--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (523 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aberdeen, Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half century after the Second World War, from many new perspectives. Some papers raise questions about the Chinese diaspora in broad conceptual terms, and inquire into the meaning of being Chinese outside China.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Migration and New National Identities / Wang Gungwu; Part I: Overview; 2. Upgrading the Migrant: Neither Huaqiao nor Huaren / Wang Gungwu; 3. Groundlessness And Utopia: The Chinese Diaspora and Territory / Emmanuel Ma Mung; 4. 蕭玉燦主義的歷史命運 (The Xiao Yucan Principle and Its Historical Destiny) / Zhou Nanjing; Part II: Identity and Ethnicity; 5. Preserving Bukit China: The Cultural Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Melaka's Chinese Cemetery / Carolyn L. Cartier

6. Representations of 'the Chinese' and 'Ethnicity' In British Racial Discourse / Suk-Tak Tam7. Emerging British Chinese Identities: Issues and Problems / David Parker; 8. Integration or Segregation: The Dutch And South African Chinese Compared / Karen L. Harris and Frank N. Pieke; Part III: The Diaspora in Europe; 9. Chinese Immigrants in Denmark After 1949: Immigration Patterns and Development; 10. Living Among Three Walls? The Peranakan Chinese in the Netherlands / Li Minghuan; 11. The Chinese and Chinese Districts In Paris / Michelle Guillon; Part IV: The Asia Pacific Front

12. Becoming 'Chinese Canadian': The Genesis of a Cultural Category / Wing Chung Ng13. Political Participation Amongst Chinese Canadians: The Road to the 1993 Election / Diana Lary; 14. 神戶的中國人與中國人社會 (The Chinese and Their Chinese Community in Kobe) / Yasui Sankichi; 15. 從日本華僑敎育的當地化傾向看日本華僑社會的當地化趨勢 (The Indigenization of Overseas Chinese in Japan as Seen from the Indigenization of Their Education) / Zhu Hulling; 16. 越南華人經濟形態的轉變 (1975-1993) (The Changing Pattern of the Vietnamese Chinese Economy, 1975-1993) / Huang Xiaojian; Part V: New Focus on Australia

17. Astronaut Families and Parachute Children: Hong Kong Immigrants in Australia / Rogelia Pe-Pua, Colleen Mitchell, Stephen Castles and Robyn Iredale18. The Changing Characteristics of Chinese Migrants to Australia During the 1980s and Early 1990s / James E. Coughlan; 19. Gold Mountain No More: Impressions of Australian Society Among Recent Asian Immigrants / David F. Ip, Chung-Tong Wu and Christine Inglis; Part VI: Chinese Overseas in Comparative Perspectives; 20. Chinese Immigration to Australia and South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Legislative Control / Karen L. Harris and Jan Ryan

21. Settlement Experiences of Recent Chinese Immigrants in Australia: A Comparison of Settlers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China / Chung-Tong Wu, David F. Ip, Christine Inglis, Ikuo Kawakami and Karel DuivenvoordenPart VII: Ethnicity, Religion and Communal Development and Qiaoxiang: Chinese Overseas and the Home Village; 22. The Role of the True Jesus Church in the Communal Development of the Chinese People in Elgin, Scotland / Garland Liu; 23. 現代中國少數民族人口境外遷移初探 : 以新彊、雲南為例 (The Migration of Minorities in Modern China) / Tan Tianxing

24. 山東省日照市旅韓華僑的調查報告 (Report of Fieldwork on the Returned Overseas Chinese of South Korea in Rizhao City, Shandong Province) / Chao Zhongchen

Notes:

"... papers presented at 'The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas: Comparative Perspectives' Conference held from 19 to 21 December 1994"--P. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-508).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-70950-X

9786612709500

988-8052-91-8

OCLC:

650509216