Dear China : Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 / Gregor Benton, Hong Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benton, Gregor, Author.

Liu, Hong, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Foreign countries--History.

Chinese.

Chinese--Foreign countries--Correspondence.

Emigrant remittances--China--20th century.

Emigrant remittances.

Emigrant remittances--China--19th century.

China--Economic conditions.

China.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps and Tables

Foreword / Gungwu, Wang

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Genealogy of Qiaopi Studies

2. The Structure of the Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks

3. The Qiaopi Trade as a Distinctive Form of Chinese Capitalism

4. Qiaopi Geography

5. Qiaopi and Modern Chinese Economy and Politics

6. Qiaopi, Qiaoxiang, and Charity

7. Qiaopi and European Migrants' Letters Compared

Conclusions

Appendix: Selected Qiaopi and Huipi Letters

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520970540

0520970543

OCLC:

1022986305