Coming Home to a Foreign Country : : Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 / / Soon Keong Ong.
Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Measures, Weights, and Currencies
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Defining Xiamen: Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839–1842)
- 2. Opening for Business: Xiamen as a Treaty Port
- 3. Facilitating Migration: Xiamen as a Migration Hub
- 4. Manipulating Identities: States and Opportunities in Xiamen
- 5. Transforming Xiamen: Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s
- 6. Making Home: Xiamen as Destination and Home
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index