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The Chinese diaspora : space, place, mobility, and identity

This volume considers the importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese overseas. The contributors trace the Chinese diaspora from Southeast Asia to North America to Oceania.
Print Book, English, ©2003
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., ©2003
viii, 400 p. : il., mapas ; 23 cm.
9780742517554, 9780742517561, 0742517551, 074251756X
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Space, place, and transnationalism in the Chinese diaspora / Laurence J.C. Ma
The Chinese diaspora or the migration of Chinese peoples? / Ronald Skeldon
Diaspora and social restructuring in postcolonial Malaysia / Carolyn Cartier
Exclusion and embeddedness : the Chinese in Thailand and Vietnam / Jonathan Rigg
A diaspora of Chinese settlement in Latin America and the Caribbean / Robert B. Kent
Identity, mobility, and the making of the Chinese diasporic landscape in Hong Kong / George C.S. Lin
Who are the Taiwanese? Taiwan in the Chinese diaspora / Jack F. Williams
Nation, ethnicity, and identity : Singapore and the dynamics and discourses of Chinese migration / Lily Kong and Brenda Yeoh
Ethnic identity and business solidarity : Chinese capitalism revisited / You-tien Hsing
Notions of home among diaspora Chinese in Germany / Maggi W.H. Leung
Chinese Americans : immigration, settlement, and social geography / C. Cindy Fan
Community as catalyst : the Chinese in Honolulu / Sen-dou Chang
From downtown slums to suburban malls : Chinese migration and settlement in Canada / David Chuenyan Lai
Chinese immigrants and transnationals in New Zealand : a fortress opened / Manying Ip
New middle-class Chinese settlers in Australia and the spatial transformation of settlement in Sydney / Chung-Tong Wu
Conclusion : Regions of diaspora / Carolyn Cartier