The Chinese Overseas
The Chinese Overseas
副标题: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy
ISBN: 9780674009868
出版社: Harvard University Press
出版年: 2002-9-30
页数: 160
定价: USD 27.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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.
In pursuing this story, international scholar Wang Gungwu uncovers some major themes of global history: the coming together of Asian and European civilizations, the ambiguities of ethnicity and diasporic consciousness, and the tension between maintaining one’s culture and assimilation.
作者简介
Wang Gungwu is Director of the East Asian Institute, and Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore.
目录
1. Seaward Sweep: The Chinese in Southeast Asia
2. The Sojourners’ Way
3. The Multicultural Quest for Autonomy
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