Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341406
L. Liu
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Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341409
B. Xiang
{"title":"Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, written by Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako","authors":"B. Xiang","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/17932548-12341409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41700847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341401
Lijie Zheng, M. Haan, W. Koops
This paper assesses whether China’s policies for providing educational support to overseas Chinese match the educational needs of current Chinese immigrants around the world. Firstly, the paper presents the different migration backgrounds of four waves of Chinese global migration in contemporary history: labor immigrants to the Global North, international students in the Global North, businessmen in the Global South and the new rich investors in the Global North. Using the concept of intergenerational contract, we found the four waves have distinct parental investment strategies in relation to their migration background, which comes along with their different educational needs. After carefully reviewing China’s policies in overseas education in terms of the assumptions, purpose and background of their implementation, we argue that these policies are outdated and serve the needs of only a limited number of Chinese immigrants due to their ignoring the variety of certain intergenerational contracts. Lastly, some specific suggestions for policy makers are given.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341407
Yao Lu
{"title":"The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa, written by Ching Kwan Lee","authors":"Yao Lu","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/17932548-12341407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43999090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341403
Christopher Cheng
Many qiaoxiang in southern Fujian and Guangdong appear derelict, but documenting the material heritage and interviewing people about its social significance reveals another image. The homeland of Overseas Chinese was not only found to be significant for the diaspora but serves as an enduring reminder of a grassroots-based modernity in rural China. The qiaoxiang effectively became a transnational legacy of migration from southern China that has undergone the following stages of transformation: exodus-led emergence of a remittance landscape, sudden abandonment, and sometimes revival. Today, it has become a “repository” or “living museum” where tourists and scholars alike can visit and ponder how humans adapted to post-rural life.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341405
Nathaniel Isaacson
{"title":"Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945–1965, written by Nicolai Volland","authors":"Nathaniel Isaacson","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/17932548-12341405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48163187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-13DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341400
K. Yung
On the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, a considerable number of Chinese intellectuals were reluctant to live under Communist rule. They began their self-exile and the search for a new home outside China. Many travelled to places on China’s periphery such as Taiwan and Hong Kong. Others continued their journey and finally settled down in Southeast Asia and North America. Sojourning abroad, most of these self-exiled intellectuals still kept a close eye on Chinese politics and society. They were eager to promote their political ideal for a liberal-democratic China in the overseas Chinese communities. However, they were at the same time facing the challenge of assimilation into local society. This article traces the journey of the self-exiles in the 1950s and 1960s from Hong Kong to Southeast Asia and North America. It examines several representative figures and studies their activities in their new place of settlement. It argues that, although the self-exiles largely maintained a strong commitment to the future of their homeland, they varied in their degree of assimilation into their new homes. Age was not a key factor in their decision to adapt to the local community. Instead, the existence of a politically and economically influential Chinese population played a more important role in such a decision. Intellectuals who lived in Hong Kong or Southeast Asia were more willing to adjust their life to the locality, while those who went to North America were less attached to the local society.
{"title":"Diaspora of Chinese Intellectuals in the Cold War Era","authors":"K. Yung","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341400","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000On the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, a considerable number of Chinese intellectuals were reluctant to live under Communist rule. They began their self-exile and the search for a new home outside China. Many travelled to places on China’s periphery such as Taiwan and Hong Kong. Others continued their journey and finally settled down in Southeast Asia and North America. Sojourning abroad, most of these self-exiled intellectuals still kept a close eye on Chinese politics and society. They were eager to promote their political ideal for a liberal-democratic China in the overseas Chinese communities. However, they were at the same time facing the challenge of assimilation into local society. This article traces the journey of the self-exiles in the 1950s and 1960s from Hong Kong to Southeast Asia and North America. It examines several representative figures and studies their activities in their new place of settlement. It argues that, although the self-exiles largely maintained a strong commitment to the future of their homeland, they varied in their degree of assimilation into their new homes. Age was not a key factor in their decision to adapt to the local community. Instead, the existence of a politically and economically influential Chinese population played a more important role in such a decision. Intellectuals who lived in Hong Kong or Southeast Asia were more willing to adjust their life to the locality, while those who went to North America were less attached to the local society.","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/17932548-12341400","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49112132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-10DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341395
E. Hertzman
{"title":"Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada, edited by Wong Lloyd Lee","authors":"E. Hertzman","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/17932548-12341395","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45511440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-10DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341391
Lap-wai Lam
During the colonial period, Chinese poets in Singapore frequently adopted the short poetic genre called “Bamboo Branch Verse” to depict local customs, cultures, and their diasporic experiences. This genre has a folksong origin, and is traditionally used by literati writers to describe local folkways and secular love in exotic places. Li Qingnian’s Nanyang zhuzhici huibian shows that no fewer than 4,197 pieces were published in Malaya and Singapore from 1888 to 1950. Based on Li’s compilation yet adopting a more critical approach in handling his source materials, this article studies the content and generic style of Singapore’s zhuzhici and its relation to local society, from 1888, the year the first set of zhuzhici poems was published, to 1941, before Singapore was occupied by the Japanese army. It first reviews the tradition of zhuzhici writing and attempt to clarify its generic distinctiveness, so as to link the zhuzhici in Singapore with its origin and to point out what is new and unchanged. Second, it examines how writers used the miniature form of zhuzhici for social criticism and to respond to the colorful, complex Nanyang cultures. Finally, it focuses on Khoo Seok Wan’s poems to explicate the relationship between zhuzhici and print culture, his attitude toward local customs, and how he applied local languages, cyclic form, and explanatory notes in the genre.
{"title":"Poetic Record of Local Customs: Bamboo Branch Verses of Singapore (1888–1941)","authors":"Lap-wai Lam","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341391","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000During the colonial period, Chinese poets in Singapore frequently adopted the short poetic genre called “Bamboo Branch Verse” to depict local customs, cultures, and their diasporic experiences. This genre has a folksong origin, and is traditionally used by literati writers to describe local folkways and secular love in exotic places. Li Qingnian’s Nanyang zhuzhici huibian shows that no fewer than 4,197 pieces were published in Malaya and Singapore from 1888 to 1950. Based on Li’s compilation yet adopting a more critical approach in handling his source materials, this article studies the content and generic style of Singapore’s zhuzhici and its relation to local society, from 1888, the year the first set of zhuzhici poems was published, to 1941, before Singapore was occupied by the Japanese army. It first reviews the tradition of zhuzhici writing and attempt to clarify its generic distinctiveness, so as to link the zhuzhici in Singapore with its origin and to point out what is new and unchanged. Second, it examines how writers used the miniature form of zhuzhici for social criticism and to respond to the colorful, complex Nanyang cultures. Finally, it focuses on Khoo Seok Wan’s poems to explicate the relationship between zhuzhici and print culture, his attitude toward local customs, and how he applied local languages, cyclic form, and explanatory notes in the genre.","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/17932548-12341391","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49652777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-10DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341392
P. Post
This paper discusses the paramount role of the Oei Tiong Ham Concern (OTHC) of Semarang in the “Buy Chinese Products” movement of the Republican Government during the period 1928–1937 and its attempts to control Java’s sugar trade with China during the same period. In doing so, the paper focuses on the personal relations between Chen Kung-po (Chen Gongbo), the Republican Minister of Trade and Industry, and the OTHC leadership, as well as the close collaboration between the Dutch-educated Peranakan and Totok Chinese business elites of Java in intensifying economic relations between China and Java. The paper thereby reassesses long-held views about attitudes and economic roles of the Westernized Peranakan Chinese elites and questions the usefulness of simplified political frameworks in analyzing the complex dynamics of intra-Asian trade and commerce in the highly politicized business environment of the 1930s.
本文论述了三宝垄Oei Tiong Ham Concern（OTHC）在1928-1937年共和政府“购买中国产品”运动中的重要作用，以及在同一时期控制爪哇与中国食糖贸易的企图。在此过程中，本文重点讨论了共和国贸工部长陈公波（陈公波）与安大略省政府领导层之间的个人关系，以及受过荷兰教育的印尼华人和爪哇华人商界精英在加强中爪哇经济关系方面的密切合作。因此，本文重新评估了长期以来对西化的土生华人精英的态度和经济角色的看法，并质疑简化的政治框架在分析20世纪30年代高度政治化的商业环境中亚洲内部贸易和商业的复杂动态方面的有用性。
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