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
8 - Is There a Chinese Diaspora?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2020
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
Summary
This concluding chapter raises the deceptively simple question whether or not there is such a thing as a Chinese diaspora. The first half of the chapter shows the efforts by which the People’s Republic of China has sought to standardize or homogenize diasporic institutions and mobilize overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese abroad to the Chinese nation. The second half of the chapter describes ways in which ethnic Chinese have either complicated understandings of the Chinese diaspora as a homogeneous entity or resisted the drive toward standardization in the service of the Chinese nation.
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- Chinese DiasporasA Social History of Global Migration, pp. 250 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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