Price and Promise of Specialness

The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959

AvJin Li Lim

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

In The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People’s Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to ‘overseas Chinese affairs’ in New China’s first decade as a function of a larger political economy. Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-06-13
Mått:155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Chinese Overseas
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004400702

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Jin Li Lim, Ph.D. (2016), London School of Economics and Political Science, is a historian of modern China. He has published scholarly chapters and articles on China, as well as on other aspects of Singapore history, and fashion and cultural studies.

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AcknowledgementsGlossary of Chinese TermsList of AbbreviationsList of FiguresIntroduction1 The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy2 Historiography3 Structure and Scope4 Sources1 Rights and Interests1 Introduction2 New Democracy and the Huaqiao3 To Do Some Good4 Openness and Sincerity5 Common Program6 Conclusion2 Screaming for Socialism1 Introduction2 Like Another Province Overseas3 If Only 1%4 All Huaqiao Have Money5 Conclusion3 No Complaints, No Escapes, No Shortfalls1 Introduction2 They Will Fervently Leap3 Rather Left than Right4 More Money, More Problems5 Conclusion4 Fourth-Class Socialism1 Introduction2 ‘Is the Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau Your Daddy?’3 Special Circumstances4 The Great Debate5 Conclusion5 Politics in Command1 Introduction2 A Great Leap Forward for Qiaowu3 Keep Left4 ConclusionConclusion1 Political Economy2 Contradiction3 Paradox4 Caveat EmptorAppendicesAppendix I: Overseas Chinese Remittances to the People’s Republic of China, 1950–1960Bibliography