Diaspora's Homeland
Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 22 March 2018
Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780822370543 |
ISBN10: | 0822370549 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 280 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 431 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 5 illustrations |
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Short description:
In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture and helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system.
Long description:
In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of “diaspora moments”—a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come into tension with local, national, and global ones—to map the multiple historical geographies in which the Chinese homeland and diaspora emerge. Chan describes several distinct moments, including the lifting of the Qing emigration ban in 1893, intellectual debates in the 1920s and 1930s about whether Chinese emigration constituted colonization and whether Confucianism should be the basis for a modern Chinese identity, as well as the intersection of gender, returns, and Communist campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. Adopting a transnational frame, Chan narrates Chinese history through a reconceptualization of diaspora to show how mass migration helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system.
“This cutting-edge book will inspire future studies of transnational history. Highly recommended.”
Table of Contents:
A Note on Romanization ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. A Great Convergence 17
2. Colonists of the South Seas 48
3. Confucius from Afar 75
4. The Women Who Stayed Behind 107
5. Homecomings 146
Conclusion and Epilogue 185
Notes 197
Bibliography 233
Index 261
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. A Great Convergence 17
2. Colonists of the South Seas 48
3. Confucius from Afar 75
4. The Women Who Stayed Behind 107
5. Homecomings 146
Conclusion and Epilogue 185
Notes 197
Bibliography 233
Index 261