The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, 1997)

Gungwu, Wang

ISBN 10: 0674002342 / ISBN 13: 9780674002340

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2000

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Inhaltsangabe:

The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and settling overseas, the "earthbound" Chinese - first traders, then peasants and workers - eventually found new sources of livelihood abroad. The practice of sojourning, being always temporarily away from home, was the answer the Chinese overseas found to deal with imperial and orthodox concerns. Today their challenge is to find an alternative to either returning or assimilating by seeking a new kind of autonomy in a world that will come to acknowledge the ideal of multicultural states.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Wang Gungwu is Director, East Asian Institute, and Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China ...
Verlag: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fair