Diaspora Space-Time : : Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community / / Anne-Christine Trémon.
Diaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansion—a Shenzhen former emigrant community—and its members' changing relationship with their diaspora around the world. For over a century, inhabitants of Shenzhen's villages have migrated to South-east Asia, the Pacific, North and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 15 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 1 chart |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Anonymization, Romanization, and Translation
- Introduction: Shenzhen and the Diasporic Relationship
- 1. A Globalized Lineage
- 2. The Shifting Landscape of Donations
- 3. Collective Funds and the Moral Economy of Surplus
- 4. Saving the Ancestral Sites, Mobilizing for the Public Good
- 5. Reversed Feng Shui and Sociodicies of (Im)mobility
- 6. Ritual Renewal and Spatiotemporal Fusion
- 7. Returning to One’s Roots through Journeys and Quests
- 8. Global Brotherhood without Close Kin
- Conclusion: Chinese Globalization and the Changing Value of Scales
- Notes
- References
- Index