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Author Williams, Michael, author.

Title Returning home with glory : Chinese villagers around the pacific, 1849 to 1949 / Michael Williams.

Publication Info. [Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Crossing Seas
Crossing Seas.
Contents Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Romanization of Chinese; 1. Destination Qiaoxiang; 2. The Border-Guard View; 3. Wading 10,000 Li; 4. Because in the Tang Mountains We Have a Big House; 5. He Would Have to Send Money; 6. Returning Home with Glory; 7. Things Did Not Work Out That Way; 8. Anglo-Saxonizing Machines; 9. You Have Been Loyal Wah Kiu; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Employing the classic Chinese saying "returning home with glory" (man zai rong gui) as the title, Michael Williams highlights the importance of return and home in the history of the connections established and maintained between villagers in the Pearl River Delta and various Pacific ports from the time of the Californian and Australian gold rushes to the founding of the People's Republic of China. Conventional scholarship on Chinese migration tends to privilege nation-state factors or concepts which are dependent on national boundaries. Such approaches are more concerned with the migrants' set.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Chinese -- Foreign countries.
Chinese -- Foreign countries.
Return migrants -- China.
Return migrants.
China.
Chinese -- Pacific Area.
Chinese.
Pacific Area.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9888390538 9789888390533 (OCoLC)1029514515
ISBN 9789888455102 (electronic book)
9888455109 (electronic book)
9888390538
9789888390533