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67 produkter
Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora
Av Gregor Benton, Hong Liu m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preserve family ties. Although such correspondence focused principally on the provision of economic …
New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand
Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity
Av Bingyu Wang
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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There are growing waves of ‘desirable’ migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland. In purely demographic terms much of this diversity has been generated by policy shifts since the 1980s and the …
Financing China's Rural Enterprises
Av Jun Li
Inbunden, 2002
2586 kr
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Rural enterprises have played an important role in the extraordinary success of China's economy over the last two decades. They have greatly increased off-farm employment in rural areas and brought substantially increased incomes and standards of living to many rural people. Jun Li provides a …
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941
Kedah and Penang
Av Wu Xiao An
Inbunden, 2003
3156 kr
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This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organization activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how …
Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity
Av Terence Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Inbunden, 2003
2586 kr
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First Published in 2004. Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism, and Identity focuses on one ethnic community – the Chinese – and examines the variety of issues surrounding enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives, starting with the role played by Chinese entrepreneurs in …
Diasporic Chinese Ventures
The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu
Inbunden, 2004
2512 kr
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This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's …
Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949
Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates
Av Hung-yok Ip
Inbunden, 2005
787 kr
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This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution.
Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business
Inbunden, 2005
2512 kr
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Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different …
Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism
Inbunden, 2005
2512 kr
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Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and …
Birth Control in China 1949-2000
Population Policy and Demographic Development
Häftad, 2005
667 kr
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This comprehensive volume analyzes Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China's 'Hardship Number One Under Heaven': the highly controversial one-child campaign, and the violent clash between family …
Chinese Transnational Networks
Inbunden, 2006
3168 kr
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The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or the Chinese …
Chinese Ethnic Business
Global and Local Perspectives
Inbunden, 2006
764 kr
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Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, …
Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had …
Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia
A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era
Av Pál Nyiri
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century before …
Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate the world economy and financial markets, the capital markets of Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, and Shenzen have matured considerably and are …
Chinese Business in Malaysia
Accumulation, Accommodation and Ascendance
Häftad, 2012
847 kr
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Chinese companies have managed to perform well in Malaysia, especially after the recession in the mid-1980s, due to a clear change in the Malay dominated government's attitude to Chinese capital. Despite the problems that prevail among UMNO politicians, the government has provided a stable economic …
Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China
Av Anne-Marie Brady, Douglas Brown
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, …
Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia
A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era
Av Pál Nyiri
Häftad, 2012
937 kr
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Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century before …
Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949
Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates
Av Hung-yok Ip
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution.
Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism
Häftad, 2009
750 kr
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Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and …
Chinese Ethnic Business
Global and Local Perspectives
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, …
Politics of Rural Reform in China
State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s
Inbunden, 2010
2476 kr
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Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also …
Chinese Transnational Networks
Häftad, 2009
750 kr
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The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or the Chinese …
Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era
Häftad, 2009
772 kr
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As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate the world economy and financial markets, the capital markets pf Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, and Shenzen have matured considerably and are …
Politics of Community Building in Urban China
Av Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel
Inbunden, 2011
2512 kr
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This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several …
Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China
Inbunden, 2011
2586 kr
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Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants …
Chinese Migrants and Internationalism
Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945
Häftad, 2011
772 kr
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The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had …
Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC
Global Rise in Chinese Eyes
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
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Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is not confined to Chinese national history. In stark contrast to the earlier self-centred preoccupation with Chinese history, there has been an …
Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business
Häftad, 2012
750 kr
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Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different …
Politics of Community Building in Urban China
Av Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel
Häftad, 2013
648 kr
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This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several …
