Cosmopolitanism from the Grassroots

ISBN-13: 9781032659572 / Twarda / 2023 / 200 str.

Ping Song

Opis

This book aims to present a holistic picture of the Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou in New York. It shows how a small village in Southeast China has expanded to New York and has undergone a transformation over the past few decades, from rural Third World peasants to ethnic entrepreneurs in a global city.

Spis treści

1. The Transnational Community of Fuzhounese 2. Fuzhounese Networking Society and the Entrepreneurial Spirit 3. Cosmopolitanism of the Beliefs of Migrants 4. “Old Overseas Chinese” and “New Overseas Chinese”: the issue of identity

O autorze

Ping Song is Professor of the Department of Anthropology & Ethnology, Xiamen University, China. Dr. Song’s research expertise includes Chinese immigrant communities in Asia: the Philippines and Malaysia, Chinese transnationalism, globalization, and Chinese immigrants in the U.S.