Diaspora's homeland : modern China in the age of global migration /
Provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics, economics and culture. The author develops the concept of "diaspora moments," a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics, economics and culture. The author develops the concept of "diaspora moments," a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come into tension with local, national and global ones, to map the multiple historical geographies in which the Chinese homeland and diaspora emerge. The author describes several distinct moments, including the lifting of the Qing emigration ban in 1893, intellectual debates in the 1920s and 1930s about whether Chinese emigration constituted colonization and whether Confucianism should be the basis for a modern Chinese identity, as well as the intersection of gender, returns and Communist campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. Adopting a transnational frame, the author narrates Chinese history through a reconceptualization of diaspora to show how mass migration helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 264 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822370543 0822370549 9780822370420 0822370425 |