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Chinese migrants abroad : cultural, educational, and social dimensions of the Chinese diaspora /

Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People'...

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Corporate Authors: World Scientific Firm
Group Author: Charney, Michael W; Yeoh, Brenda S. A; Tong, Chee Kiong
Published: Singapore University Press : World Scientific Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: Singapore ;
Publication Dates: 2003.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Chinese > Foreign countries
Chinese diaspora
Electronic books
Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5000#t=toc
Summary: Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result, and the durability of the Singapore economy during this same crisis, have helped to sustain this attention. The study of the overseas Chinese has
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxv,277pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-277).
ISBN: 9789812795564 (electronic bk.)
CLC: D634.3
Contents: pt. one. Chineseness and "overseas" Chinese identifications and identities of a migrant community. 1. Five Southeast Asian Chinese empire-builders: commonalities and differences / Jamie Mackie -- 2. Providers, protectors, guardians: migration and reconstruction of masculinities / Ray Hibbins -- 3. Tasting the night: food, ethnic transaction, and the pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia / Yao Souchou -- 4. Multiple identities among the returned overseas Chinese in Hong Kong / James Chin Kong -- pt. two. Chinese or Western education? Cultural choices and education. 5. Chinese education and chan

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