{"product_id":"9789814488310","title":"Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003eFast-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study of the overseas Chinese has by now become a global enterprise, raising new theoretical problems and empirical challenges. New case studies of overseas Chinese, such as those on communities in North America, Cuba, India, and South Africa, continually unveil different perspectives. New kinds of transnational connectivities linking Chinese communities are also being identified. It is now possible to make broader generalizations of a Chinese diaspora, on a global basis. Further, the intensifying study of the overseas Chinese has stimulated renewed intellectual vigor in other areas of research. The transnational and transregional activities of overseas Chinese, for example, pose serious challenges to analytical concepts of regional divides such as that between East and Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the increased attention, new data, and the changing theoretical paradigms, basic questions concerning the overseas Chinese remain. The papers in this volume seek to understand the overseas Chinese migrants not just in terms of the overall Chinese diaspora per se, but also local Chinese migrants adapting to local societies, in different national contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChineseness and “Overseas” Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences \u003ci\u003e(J Mackie)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProviders, Protectors, Guardians: Migration and Reconstruction of Masculinities \u003ci\u003e(R Hibbins)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTasting the Night: Food, Ethnic Transaction, and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia \u003ci\u003e(S-C Yao)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMultiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong \u003ci\u003e(J K Chin)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChinese Education and Changing National and Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chûka Dôbun Gakkô [\u003ci\u003eTongwen\u003c\/i\u003e Chinese School] in Kobe \u003ci\u003e(B W-M Ng)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools \u003ci\u003e(T B Wee)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese Education in British Malaya \u003ci\u003e(C H Yen)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education \u003ci\u003e(D T-K Wong)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage, Education, and Occupational Attainment of Foreign-Trained Chinese and Polish Professional Immigrants in Toronto, Canada \u003ci\u003e(Z Li)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCareer and Family Factors in Intention for Permanent Settlement in Australia \u003ci\u003e(S-E Khoo \u0026amp; A Mak)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Longer Migrants: Southern New Zealand Chinese in the Twentieth Century \u003ci\u003e(N Pawakapan)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSingapore Chinese Society in Transition: Reflections on the Cultural Implications of Modern Education \u003ci\u003e(G K Lee)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership: \u003c\/b\u003eAcademics and lay people who are interested in social studies of Chinese immigrant societies.\u003cbr\u003eKeywords:Review:0","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185292263664,"sku":"9789814488310","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814488310_p0.jpg?v=1763691447","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814488310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}