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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501756207
035 _a(DE-B1597)572238
035 _a(OCoLC)1198086162
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aDS797.26.X536
_bO64 2021
072 7 _aHIS008000
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082 0 4 _a305.9/06910951245
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aOng, Soon Keong
_eautore
245 1 0 _aComing Home to a Foreign Country :
_bXiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 /
_cSoon Keong Ong.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b5 b&w halftones, 1 map, 1 chart, 4 graphs
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tMeasures, Weights, and Currencies --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Defining Xiamen: Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839–1842) --
_t2. Opening for Business: Xiamen as a Treaty Port --
_t3. Facilitating Migration: Xiamen as a Migration Hub --
_t4. Manipulating Identities: States and Opportunities in Xiamen --
_t5. Transforming Xiamen: Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s --
_t6. Making Home: Xiamen as Destination and Home --
_tConclusions --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aOng Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, Coming Home to a Foreign Country explores the multi-layered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia. Ong investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumulation and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their continual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese migrants, Ong argues, the idea of "home" was something consciously constructed. Ong complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650 0 _aReturn migrants
_zChina
_zXiamen (Xiamen Shi).
650 0 _aReturn migration
_zChina
_zXiamen (Xiamen Shi)
_xHistory.
650 4 _aAnthropology.
650 4 _aAsian Studies.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Asia / China.
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653 _aTreaty port Xiamen, Returned overseas Chinese, The construction of Chinese identity, Urban reconstruction in Xiamen.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756207?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501756207
856 4 2 _3Cover
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