Screen LibraryUpriver journeys : diaspora and empire in southern China, 1570-1850 /
"Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of m...
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Harvard University Asia Center,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
106 |
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| Summary: |
"Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in what would become a global diaspora"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 332 pages : maps, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-326) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674975200 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0674975200 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | HB2114 |
| CLC: | C922.2-09 |
| Call Number: | C922.2-09/M643 |
| Contents: | I. Imperial intermediaries: Officials: agents of empire in the upriver frontier, 1570-1740 -- Students: migration and civil examinations, 1570-1760 -- Merchants: commercial networks and state support, 1700-1850 -- II. Diasporic families: Husbands and wives in the West River basin -- Upriver settlers and delta lineages. |