Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora

304 Pages·2003·3.62 MB·English

by  Michael W. Charney

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Editors
Michael W. Charney
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Tong Chee Kiong
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Migrants Abroad
Cultural, Educational, and
Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Editors
Michael W. Charney
University of London
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
National University of Singapore
Tong Chee Kiong
National University of Singapore
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First published 2003
Reprinted 2005
CHINESE MIGRANTS ABROAD
Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Chinese Abroad
Part One. Chineseness and "Overseas" Chinese Identifications
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
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Part Two. Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices
and Education
5 Chinese Education and Changing National and 85
Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in
Modern Japan: A Study of Chuka Dobun Gakko
[Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe
Benjamin Ng WaUming
6 Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: 101
A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the
Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools
Wee Tong Bao
7 Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese 114
Education in British Malaya
Yen Ching-Hwang
8 The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and 145
English Education
Danny Wong Tze-Ken
Part Three. Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society
9 Language, Education, and Occupational Attainment of 163
Foreign-Trained Chinese and Polish Professional
Immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Li Zong
10 Career and Family Factors in Intention for 181
Permanent Settlement in Australia
Siew-Ean Khoo & Anita Mak
11 No Longer Migrants: Southern New Zealand 204
Chinese in the Twentieth Century
Niti Pawakapan
Contents VII
12 Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Reflections 229
on the Cultural Implications of Modern Education
Lee Guan Kin
Bibliography 253
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IX
List of Figures
2.1 Major Themes and Their Relationships 26
6.1 Female Arrivals from China, 1890-1934 107
6.2 Birth of Chinese in Singapore, 1895-1934 107
6.3 Children Arriving from China, 1890-1934 108
List of Tables
9.1 Sample Characteristics 167
9.2 Occupational Attainment in Country of Origin and in
Canada for Foreign-trained Polish- and Chinese-
Canadian Professionals 169
9.3.1 Mobility Matrix for Foreign-trained Polish
Professional Immigrants: Outflow Percentage 170
9.3.2 Mobility Matrix for Foreign-trained Chinese
Professional Immigrants: Outflow Percentage 171
9.3.3 Occupational Mobility for Foreign-trained Polish and
Chinese Professional Immigrants 172
9.4-1 Mobility between the Last Occupation in Country of
Origin and Current Occupation in Canada by Linguistic
Abilities as Reported by Foreign-trained Polish- and
Chinese-Canadian Professionals 173