Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration

ISBN-13: 9781107179929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 278 str.

Steven B. Miles

Opis

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

Recenzje

'Chinese Diasporas is an ambitious effort to recount 500 years of overseas migration, flitting from locales such as Depression Era Chicago to British Malaya from one paragraph to the next.' Selina J. Gao, Canadian Journal of History

Spis treści

Introduction. Framing Chinese migration; 1. Early modern patterns, 1500–1740; 2. Migration in the prosperous age, 1740–1840; 3. The age of mass migration, 1840–1937; 4. The Chinese state and the politics of diaspora, 1860s–1940s; 5. Disruptions and diasporic communities in the mid-twentieth century; 6. The 'floating population' and 'new migrants', 1980s–present; 7. Transnational Chinese, 1990s–present; 8. Is there a Chinese diaspora?