Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times

397 Pages·2008·3.45 MB·English

by  Philip A. Kuhn

Chinese Among Others
STATE AND SOCIETY IN EAST ASIA
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Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times By Philip A. Kuhn
Chinese Among Others
Emigration in Modern Times
Philip A. Kuhn
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-1070-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7425-1070-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Chinese
—Foreign countries—History. 2. Chinese—Southeast Asia—History. 3. Southeast Asia—Emigration
and immigration—History. 4. China—Emigration and immigration—History. I. Title.
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Contents
Key to Dialect Groups and Their Mandarin Referents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Maritime Expansion and Chinese Migration
2. Early Colonial Empires and Chinese Migrant Communities
3. Imperialism and Mass Emigration
4. Communities in the Age of Mass Migration:
I. Southeast Asia
5. Communities in the Age of Mass Migration:
II. Exclusion From, and In, the Settler Societies
6. Revolution and “National Salvation”
7. Chinese Communities in Postcolonial Southeast Asia
8. The New Migration
Glossary of Names and Terms
References Cited
Index
About the Author
Dialect Groups and Their Mandarin Referents
Dialect Group Mandarin Referent