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Author Ong, Soon Keong, 1969- author.

Title Coming home to a foreign country : Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 / Ong Soon Keong.

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cornell East Asia series ; number 207
Cornell East Asia series ; Number 207.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Defining Xiamen : Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839-1842) -- Opening for Business : Xiamen as a Treaty Port -- Facilitating Migration : Xiamen as a Migration Hub -- Manipulating Identities : State and Opportunities in Xiamen -- Transforming Xiamen : Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s -- Making Home : Xiamen as Destination and Home
Summary "'How did migration affect those who moved and the places the emigrants moved through?' Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses this question by focusing on the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) and the Chinese who migrated out of China-mostly to Southeast Asia-and then returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Return migrants -- China -- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi)
Return migrants.
China -- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi)
Return migration -- China -- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi) -- History.
Return migration.
History.
Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China) -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Ong, Soon Keong, 1969- Coming home to a foreign country Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501756184 (DLC) 2020043624 (OCoLC)1198088254
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