Chinese Worlds
About the Book Series
Chinese Worlds publishes high-quality scholarship, research monographs, and source collections on Chinese history and society. 'Worlds' signals the diversity of China, the cycles of unity and division through which China's modern history has passed, and recent research trends toward regional studies and local issues. It also signals that Chineseness is not contained within borders - ethnic migrant communities overseas are also 'Chinese worlds.'
The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard: Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940
1st Edition
By Daria Arincheva, Alexander Pantsov
October 07, 2024
This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the ...
The Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks in the Chinese Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregor Benton, Hong Liu, Huimei Zhang
March 31, 2021
Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to preserve family ties. Although such correspondence focused principally on the provision of economic ...
A Road Is Made: Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927
1st Edition
By Steve Smith
December 18, 2020
This is a study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the party's relations to the city's students and teachers, women, entrepreneurs, secret societies and its workers, and examines the efforts to transform...
New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity
1st Edition
By Bingyu Wang
May 07, 2020
There are growing waves of ‘desirable’ migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland. In purely demographic terms much of this diversity has been generated by policy shifts since the 1980s and the...
Mixed Race Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand
1st Edition
By Zarine L. Rocha
February 12, 2018
"Mixed race" is becoming an important area for research, and there is a growing body of work in the North American and British contexts. However, understandings and experiences of "mixed race" across different countries and regions are not often explored in significant depth. New Zealand and ...
Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship: Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States
1st Edition
By Lisong Liu
June 30, 2017
Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and ...
Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurship in Malaysia: On Contextualisation in International Business Studies
1st Edition
By Michael Jakobsen
May 25, 2017
The study of ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia has a long tradition. What is most striking in these studies is just how difficult it is to generalise about this ethnic group in the region. Whether or not they have been able to identify as Chinese has to a certain extend depended on different ...
The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927
1st Edition
By Alexander Pantsov
July 12, 2016
Based mainly on unknown Russian archival sources which have previously been unobtainable, this book analyses the Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese revolution and their reception in China. Issues include the role of the three Bolshevik leaders, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky in trying to lead the ...
Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market
1st Edition
By Luigi Tomba
June 03, 2016
Labour reform is only one component of the larger process of reforming economy and society experienced by China over the last three decades. This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China: an experimental and self-fulfilling ...
Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregor Benton, Hong Liu
May 31, 2016
This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China giving the reader a deeper understanding of his views on migration, identity, nationalism and culture, all key issues in modern Asia's ...
Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hein Mallee, Frank N. Pieke
May 31, 2016
Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration.Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas...
Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley
1st Edition
By Anne-Marie Brady
March 03, 2016
This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the ...