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.'
Chinese Transnational Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Chee-Beng Tan
July 24, 2009
The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or ...
Chinese Ethnic Business: Global and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Fong, Chiu Luk
May 21, 2009
Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US, ...
Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By Kwok-bun Chan
May 21, 2009
Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal ...
Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949: Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates
1st Edition
By Hung-yok Ip
April 15, 2009
This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution....
Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Terence Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
November 13, 2003
First Published in 2004. Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism, and Identity focuses on one ethnic community – the Chinese – and examines the variety of issues surrounding enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives, starting with the role played by Chinese entrepreneurs in ...
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang
1st Edition
By Wu Xiao An
February 20, 2003
This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related legal and labour organization activities, were highly influential in the process of state formation in Malaya. It shows how ...
Financing China's Rural Enterprises
1st Edition
By Dr Jun Li, Jun Li
December 19, 2002
Rural enterprises have played an important role in the extraordinary success of China's economy over the last two decades. They have greatly increased off-farm employment in rural areas and brought substantially increased incomes and standards of living to many rural people. Jun Li provides a ...
Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development
1st Edition
By Thomas Scharping
August 01, 2005
This comprehensive volume analyzes Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China's 'Hardship Number One Under Heaven': the highly controversial one-child campaign, and the violent clash between family ...
Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development
1st Edition
By Thomas Scharping
October 24, 2002
This comprehensive volume analyses Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China's 'Hardship Number One Under Heaven': the highly controversial one-child campaign, and the violent clash between family ...
Chinas Unlimited: Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness
1st Edition
By Gregory B. Lee
November 07, 2002
A socio-cultural study of the historical representation of China and Chineseness over the past hundred years or so, much of this book discusses the Orientalizing and crude racist ideologies that have formed the foundations of the way people in the west, both popularly and scientifically, have ...