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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Treaty revision and Sino-Japanese dispute over Taiwan, 1868-1876
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Instability in and beyond China, 1885-1892
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Suppression of Boxers and negotiations for China settlement, August 1900-October 1900
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Boxer disturbances and siege of Peking, May 1900-August 1900
Author: British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: Chefoo Convention and its aftermath, 1876-1885
Author: Coming Home to a Foreign Country
Author: Soon Keong OngPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501756206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, Coming Home to a Foreign Country explores the multilayered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia. Ong investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumulation and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their continual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese migrants, Ong argues, the idea of "home" was something consciously constructed. Ong complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s.
The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era
Author: Alexander MichiePublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
China and the International System, 1840-1949
Author: David ScottPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Law across imperial borders
Author: Emily WhewellPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526140047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.
Three Years in Western China
Author: Sir Alexander HosiePublisher: London ; Liverpool : G. Philip
ISBN:
Category : Black Hmong dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description