Upriver journeys : diaspora and empire in southern china, 1570-1850 / Steven B. Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Steven B., 1964- author.

Series:

Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 106.

Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 332 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in what would become a global diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I. Imperial intermediaries: Officials: agents of empire in the upriver frontier, 1570-1740

Students: migration and civil examinations, 1570-1760

Merchants: commercial networks and state support, 1700-1850

II. Diasporic families: Husbands and wives in the West River basin

Upriver settlers and delta lineages.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-090-7

OCLC:

1132221611

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684170906 DOI