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Global Chinese Literature
Critical Essays
Av Jing Tsu, David Der-wei Wang
Inbunden, 2010
2600 kr
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This path-breaking collection of critical essays introduces a diverse range of approaches to open up the field of modern Chinese literature to new cross-regional, local, and global analyses. Each of the ten essays deals with a particular conceptual problem or case study of different locations and …
Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila
Family, Identity, and Culture, 1860s-1930s
Av Richard Chu
Inbunden, 2010
3036 kr
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For centuries, the Chinese have been intermarrying with inhabitants of the Philippines, resulting in a creolized community of Chinese mestizos under the Spanish colonial regime. In contemporary Philippine society, the “Chinese” are seen as a racialized “Other” while descendants from early …
Strangers at Home
History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Inbunden, 2011
3057 kr
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This is an ethno-historical study of Chinese from West Kalimantan, Indonesia that, unlike other Chinese Diasporic studies, takes its departure from the “away” position. The study aims to interrogate how, where, and in what terms “home” is defined for the stranger. Through examining historical …
Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change
Av Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2378 kr
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The existing literature on Chinese Indonesians has so far tended to take an approach of either victimization and marginalization or a focus on elite businessmen and their economic influence. This volume takes a different perspective. The Chinese in Indonesia were not only innocent victims of …
Virtual Chinatown
The Diasporic Mediasphere of Chinese Migrants in New Zealand
Av Phoebe H. Li
Inbunden, 2013
2153 kr
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What role does diasporic Chinese media play in the process of Chinese migrants' adaptation to their new home country? With China's rise, to what extent has the expansion of its "soft power" swayed the changing identities of the Chinese overseas? A Virtual Chinatown provides a timely and original …
Networks beyond Empires
Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914-1941
Inbunden, 2014
2910 kr
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In Networks beyond Empires, Kuo examines business and nationalist activities of the Chinese bourgeoisie in Hong Kong and Singapore between 1914 and 1941. The book argues that speech-group ties were key to understanding the intertwining relationship between business and nationalism. Organization of …
Global Hakka
Hakka Identity in the Remaking
Av Jessieca Leo
Inbunden, 2015
3976 kr
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In Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking Jessieca Leo offers a needed update on Hakka history and a reassessment of Hakka identity in the global and transnational contexts. Leo gives fresh insights into concepts such as ethnicity, identity, Han, Chineseness, overseas Chinese, and migration …
Chinese Religion in Malaysia
Temples and Communities
Inbunden, 2018
2247 kr
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Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and communities in historical and contemporary perspective, the diversity of deities and Chinese speech groups, religious specialists and temple services, the …
Price and Promise of Specialness
The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1959
Av Jin Li Lim
Inbunden, 2019
2284 kr
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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 …
Sinophone Southeast Asia
Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas
Inbunden, 2021
1902 kr
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This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often …
Chinese Religion in Malaysia
Temples and Communities
Häftad, 2020
849 kr
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Based on long-term ethnographic study, this is the first comprehensive work on the Chinese popular religion in Malaysia. It analyses temples and communities in historical and contemporary perspective, the diversity of deities and Chinese speech groups, religious specialists and temple services, the …
Chinese in Dubai
Money, Pride, and Soul-Searching
Av Yuting Wang
Inbunden, 2020
2088 kr
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Chinese in Dubai offers the first book-length study of the experiences of overseas Chinese living in the most prominent global city in the Arabian Gulf and the broader Middle East region. Evolving around three themes—money, pride, and spirituality, this book delineates the changing shape of Chinese …
Chinese Migrants in Paris
The Narratives of Illusion and Suffering
Av Simeng Wang
Inbunden, 2021
1749 kr
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This research employs the narrative of mental suffering as a prism through which to study Chinese migration in France. It provides new analytical angles and new perspectives on the paradoxical existence and conditions of the migrants, and traces the social links between individuals and societies, …
Australia's Dictation Test
The Test It Was a Crime to Fail
Inbunden, 2021
2338 kr
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The last person to ‘pass’ White Australia’s Dictation Test did so in 1907 by submitting a watercolour entitled ‘Advance Australia Fair. For the next 50 years of its existence the thereafter more carefully trained officials ensured no one ever passed again. Here is detailed how the White Australia …
Presence of China and the Chinese Diaspora in Portugal and Portuguese-Speaking Territories
Av Sofia Gaspar
Inbunden, 2021
1895 kr
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This book brings together works by specialists from various areas of the social sciences to reflect on the presence of China in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking territories. From the first Chinese coolies that migrated to the former Portuguese colonies more than 100 years ago, to the current …
Digital Transnationalism
Chinese-Language Media in Australia
Inbunden, 2023
2348 kr
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This is the first book in English on Chinese-language digital media in Australia. The book comes at a time when the relationship between China and the West is at its most troubling since the end of the Cold War. Combining rich ethnographic insights with dispassionate analysis, this investigation …
Cultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887‒1945)
Av Lap Lam
Inbunden, 2024
2331 kr
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Classical-style poetry in modern China and other Sinitic-speaking localities is attracting greater attention with the recent upsurge in academic revision of modern Chinese literary history. Using the concept of cultural transplantation, this monograph attempts to illustrate the uniqueness, …
Chinese Reformer in Exile
Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911
Av Robert L. Worden, Jane Leung Larson
Inbunden, 2025
2416 kr
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A Chinese Reformer in Exile is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide to transform China’s autocratic empire into a constitutional monarchy. Chinese …
Shaping Medan
The Role and Impact of Prominent Chinese 1890-1942
Inbunden, 2024
2221 kr
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The City of Medan on Sumatra emerged from the large-scale plantation industry. The plantations were characterized by harsh labor conditions, and frequently described as an area of suppression and struggle. In contrast, the city of Medan itself maintained a relatively harmonious atmosphere. A …
Falling Leaves
Identities, Subjectivities, Mobilities and the Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2026
1814 kr
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This book brings together new research on ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia by emerging and established scholars of the Humanities and Social Sciences. From the earliest Chinese-Malay novels in Java to the dynamic construction of identity on social media platforms, this volume uncovers …
