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Author Tan, Chee-Beng

Title Chinese overseas : comparative cultural issues / Tan Chee-Beng
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 260 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Chinese ethnological field : anthropological studies of chinese communities worldwide -- Acculturation, ethnicity, and ethnic Chinese -- Chinese migration, localization and the production of Baba culture -- Chinese identities in Malaysia -- Ethnic Chinese : language, nationality and identity -- Ethnic Chinese and ethnic relations : some economic explanations -- Culture and economic performance with special reference to the Chinese in Southeast Asia
Summary "This book examines issues of cultural change and identity construction of Chinese overseas, as well as other important issues such as Chinese and non-Chinese relations, and cultural and economic performance. It offers a perspective of understanding Chinese oversease in nation-states and beyond, in a global context which the author describes as the Chinese ethnological field."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-253) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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In HKU Press digital editions
Subject Chinese -- Southeast Asia
Chinese -- Malaysia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Chinese
Auswanderung
Ethnische Identität
Chinesen
Chinese.
Ethnic identity.
Cultural change.
Diaspora.
Malaysia
Southeast Asia
Südostasien
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789882200715
9882200710
962209662X
9789622096622
1282705741
9781282705746
9786612705748
6612705744