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Using empirical case studies, this book investigates how China's position in the world has affected the identity of Chinese ethnic communities internationally. Analysing the effects of China's rise on patterns of transnational movements, it explores the changes in relations between Chinese communities and their host and ancestral countries.
List of contents
Introduction: Contemporary China’s Rise and the Chinese Overseas
1. The Rise of China and Its Impact in the San Francisco Bay Area
2. From Cold War to Open Door: the Making of the Chinese in Canada, 1950-2015
3. From Multicultural Ethnic Migrants to the New Players of China’s Public Diplomacy: The Chinese in Australia
4. Rising China and the history of the South African Chinese
5. Cultural Ties and State’s Interests: Malaysian Chinese and China’s Rise
6. Rethniking "Pauk-Phaw": Chinese Migrants, Ethnic Interaction and China’s Rise
7. Loving the Money but Not the Migrants: Hungarian Attitudes toward the Chinese
8. Cuba, China and the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
9. Ethnically Diverse Diasporas and Migrations from China to Central Asia in the 21st Century: Origin and Contemporary Challenge with Special Reference to Kazakhstan
10. China’s New Global Position: Changing Policies towards the Chinese Diaspora in the 21st Century
About the author
Bernard P. Wong is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at San Francisco State University. His research interests include the family, ethnic identity, cultural citizenship and globalization.
Tan Chee-Beng is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University. He is also currently President of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO).
Summary
Using empirical case studies, this book investigates how China’s position in the world has affected the identity of Chinese ethnic communities internationally. Analysing the effects of China’s rise on patterns of transnational movements, it explores the changes in relations between Chinese communities and their host and ancestral countries.
