Book contents
- Chinese Diasporas
- New Approaches to Asian History
- Chinese Diasporas
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Using This Book
- Introduction: Framing Chinese Migration
- 1 Early Modern Patterns, 1500–1740
- 2 Migration in the Prosperous Age, 1740–1840
- 3 The Age of Mass Migration, 1840–1937
- 4 The Chinese State and the Politics of Diaspora, 1860s–1940s
- 5 Disruptions and Diasporic Communities in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- 6 The “Floating Population” and “New Migrants,” 1980s to the Present
- 7 Transnational Chinese, 1990s to the Present
- 8 Is There a Chinese Diaspora?
- Index
- New Approaches to Asian History
- References
3 - The Age of Mass Migration, 1840–1937
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2020
- Chinese Diasporas
- New Approaches to Asian History
- Chinese Diasporas
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Using This Book
- Introduction: Framing Chinese Migration
- 1 Early Modern Patterns, 1500–1740
- 2 Migration in the Prosperous Age, 1740–1840
- 3 The Age of Mass Migration, 1840–1937
- 4 The Chinese State and the Politics of Diaspora, 1860s–1940s
- 5 Disruptions and Diasporic Communities in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- 6 The “Floating Population” and “New Migrants,” 1980s to the Present
- 7 Transnational Chinese, 1990s to the Present
- 8 Is There a Chinese Diaspora?
- Index
- New Approaches to Asian History
- References
Summary
Chapter 3 surveys the vast expansion, both in the numbers of migrants and in the range of destinations, of Chinese migration during the age of mass migration, processes driven in part by industrialization and imperialism. The chapter both traces the expansion of existing diasporic trajectories, such as migration from Shandong to Manchuria and the Hokkien diaspora in Southeast Asia, and introduces new diasporic trajectories, such as the Teochiu migrants to Thailand, Cantonese migrants to Australasia and the Americas, and Zhejiang migrants to Europe. The chapter also draws attention to diasporic trajectories made up of female migrants, to Shanghai and Singapore, representing the beginnings of the feminization of migration. The chapter then introduces institutions unique to the age of mass migration: treaty ports, indentured servitude and the “coolie” trade. The chapter argues that while the age of migration was the heyday of such Chinese institutions as native-place associations and brotherhoods, it also witnessed the emergence of new types of migration services. The chapter concludes with a third example of a Chinese diasporic community, this one made up of Teochiu farmers in a village on the Malay Peninsula.
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- Chinese DiasporasA Social History of Global Migration, pp. 90 - 135Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020