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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Routledge Contemporary China Series |
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Routledge contemporary China series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of maps; List of tables; List of appendices; Acknowledgments; Notes on names, translations, and currencies; 1 Introduction; Myth about China and Chinese diaspora; Qiao and Chinese diaspora: terms and concepts; Qiaoxiang, Chinese business networks, transnationalism, and Greater China: a literature review; Investigating old qiaoxiang; Panyu, Xinyi, Singapore, and Malaysia: field sites and methodologies; Book structure; 2 Patterns and impacts: Guangdong and its different diasporic groups |
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Trading with and fleeing to Southeast Asia before 1850Working around the world, 1850-1930; Settling next door in Hong Kong, 1949-1978; Global dispersion and three major diasporic groups; Formation of qiaoxiang areas before 1949; Severed transnational linkages, 1949-1978; Reconfigured landscape since 1978; Concluding remarks; 3 Waning ancestral ties: Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese; Family extension, political reorientation, and local consciousness; Non-Chinese elements in business networks; Economic relations with China: government's drive and business calculations |
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Dialect groups: vanishing boundariesCantonese in Singapore and Malaysia; Panyu and Xinyi people in Singapore and Malaysia; Detached from ancestral homeland: August-September 2000 questionnaire; Concluding remarks; 4 Facing the South China Sea: Panyu before 1978; Panyu and Guangzhou: coastal settings and administrative boundaries; Trading overseas and escaping political chaos before the mid nineteenth century; Massive overseas migration of labor from the mid nineteenth century to 1949; Settling next door in Hong Kong and Macau after 1949; Wide dispersion around the world |
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Connected: formation of a qiaoxiang before 1949Disconnected: troubled years from 1949 to 1978; Concluding remarks; 5 Transformation: Panyu since 1978; Robust economic growth; Diaspora and immigrants; Panyu honorary citizens: ascendance of diaspora; Donations and investments: new diasporic responses; Limited engagement of chinese overseas and increased involvement of Hong Kong compatriots; Henry Fok, Huang Wei, Xie Guoqing, and Gao Aitian: different ties with Panyu; Hong Kong modernity; New mentality: an analysis of questionnaire results, November 2000-February 2001; Concluding remarks |
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6 Remote in the mountains: Xinyi before 1978Gaozhou, Xinyi, and Maoming: mountainous settings and administrative boundaries; Overseas migration of capitalists and labor to British Malaya, 1880-1949; An escape from political hardships to nearby territories, 1949-1978; Family reunion in Hong Kong and Macau since 1978; Late migration and limited scope of dispersion; Xinyi locality associations; Traditional features before 1949; Delinking from 1949 to 1978; Concluding remarks; 7 Still poor: Xinyi since 1978; Sluggish economic growth; Sending workers overland |
| Summary |
China's rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China's economic success has created a myth that their relations with China is natural and primordial, and that regardless of their base outside China and generation of migration, the Chinese Diaspora are inclined to participate enthusiastically in China's social and economic agendas. This book seeks to dispel such a |
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Caregivers for the poor guiqiao and qiaojuan |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136171192 |
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1136171193 |
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