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 Politics of Rural Reform in China: State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s
1st Edition
By Christian Göbel
January 20, 2016
Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also ...
Documentary, World History, and National Power in the PRC: Global Rise in Chinese Eyes
1st Edition
By Gotelind Mueller
July 31, 2015
Documentaries have recently become a favourite format for Chinese state-directed media to present an officially sanctioned view of history. Indeed, this is not confined to Chinese national history. In stark contrast to the earlier self-centred preoccupation with Chinese history, there has been an ...
Confucian Capitalism: Discourse, Practice and the Myth of Chinese Enterprise
1st Edition
By Souchou Yao
February 27, 2015
The discourse of Confucian Capitalism has been crucial in shaping our understanding of the brilliant economic successes of the Chinese diaspora all over the world. From this perspective, hard work, family values, and communal cohesion, as well as business practices based on sentiment, trust, and ...
Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Marie Brady, Douglas Brown
February 27, 2015
Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, ...
Chinatown, Europe: An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Flemming Christiansen, Flemming Christiansen
January 14, 2014
Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese?The histories of Chinese communities in Europe are diverse, spanning (amongst others) Teochiu speaking migrants from French Indochina to France, and Hakka and Cantonese speaking ...
Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China
1st Edition
By Glen Peterson
January 03, 2014
Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants ...
Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business
1st Edition
By Kwok-bun Chan
July 26, 2013
Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. Using case studies of Chinese communities in Canada, Chan explores the different ...
The Politics of Community Building in Urban China
1st Edition
By Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel
April 11, 2013
This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several ...
Chinese Business in Malaysia: Accumulation, Ascendance, Accommodation
1st Edition
By Terence Gomez
June 19, 2012
Chinese companies have managed to perform well in Malaysia, especially after the recession in the mid-1980s, due to a clear change in the Malay dominated government's attitude to Chinese capital. Despite the problems that prevail among UMNO politicians, the government has provided a ...
Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia: A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era
1st Edition
By Pál Nyiri
May 09, 2012
Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century ...
Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945
1st Edition
By Gregor Benton
March 15, 2011
The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had ...
Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong
December 11, 2009
As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate the world economy and financial markets, the capital markets pf Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, and Shenzen have matured considerably and are ...