The papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half century after the Second World War, from many new perspectives. Some ...

During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they ...

Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841–1984 presents detailed empirical studies of day-to-day interactions between people of different cultures in a ...

For the past century, all kinds of Chinese people seemed to have tried to be ?modern?. At the same time, the standards of modernity have been set elsewhere and they seem always ...

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 ...

The Chinese overseas comprise the 25 million or more who left China to settle abroad, and their families and descendents. The essays in this book draw mainly from Southeast ...

This publication combines two lectures given under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Chinese Southern Diaspora at the Australian National University in February 1999 ...

A comprehensive study of the Hong Kong emigrants both within the context of their home society and within their new host communities. The contributers include geographers ...