Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
Series |
Crossing Seas
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Crossing Seas.
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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.
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Chinese -- Foreign countries. |
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Return migrants -- China.
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Return migrants. |
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China. |
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Chinese -- Pacific Area.
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Chinese. |
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Pacific Area. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9888390538 9789888390533 (OCoLC)1029514515 |
ISBN |
9789888455102 (electronic book) |
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9888455109 (electronic book) |
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9888390538 |
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9789888390533 |
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