Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341483
Doan Ngoc Chung (段玉钟)
The Mazu belief is a type of Chinese folk belief that has become a global cultural phenomenon. Before the Second World War, Chinese immigrants built temples for Mazu in many places of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, especially its Southern part. The region has been commonly known as the place of coexistence and multicultural exchanges between four ethnic groups, namely the Viet (Kinh), Hoa (Chinese), Khmer and Cham. Chinese immigration to Vietnam has a long history. Southern Chinese immigrants and their unique culture started arriving in the region in the late seventeenth century. After immigrating to Vietnam, they maintained various ties with their motherland through cultural practices and belief systems, especially Mazu worship. In Vietnam, they set up various guild halls, temples and chambers of commerce to worship Mazu, forming a dense ethnic social network that has played a significant role within the Vietnamese Chinese community. Using the notions of transnationalism and ethnic identity, and supported by fieldwork, literature research and a more comprehensive general analysis, this study is not only aimed at understanding Mazu belief in Vietnam but also underlines the role played by this belief in the Chinese community in Vietnam.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1163/17932548-01901000
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341479
Sebastjan Jemec (宋钧瑭)
This ethnography examines coffee habits among return migrants in their place of origin in a rural county in Fujian. Many migrants occupy low-skill jobs in the catering and textile industry in Italy, Austria, and Hungary. I argue that coffee does not represent an identification with cosmopolitanism, but rather evokes memories of hardships these migrants are subject to during their overseas stay. The deeper implication of this study lies in the rethinking of overseas return migration. Through rethinking the practice and embedded memories of coffee culture, I assess the meaning of overseas migration for rural return migrants. Their return is happening at a time when overseas emigration is not the only road to economic advancement, as it was two decades ago when the localized phenomenon of overseas emigration was at its peak.
{"title":"Sweet Return and Bitter Memories: Rethinking Coffee Culture and Overseas Return Migration from Europe to Rural Fujian, China","authors":"Sebastjan Jemec (宋钧瑭)","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341479","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This ethnography examines coffee habits among return migrants in their place of origin in a rural county in Fujian. Many migrants occupy low-skill jobs in the catering and textile industry in Italy, Austria, and Hungary. I argue that coffee does not represent an identification with cosmopolitanism, but rather evokes memories of hardships these migrants are subject to during their overseas stay. The deeper implication of this study lies in the rethinking of overseas return migration. Through rethinking the practice and embedded memories of coffee culture, I assess the meaning of overseas migration for rural return migrants. Their return is happening at a time when overseas emigration is not the only road to economic advancement, as it was two decades ago when the localized phenomenon of overseas emigration was at its peak.","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45846003","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 : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341478
Aranya Siriphon, Jiangyu Li (李江玉)
This article explores education-led migration among Chinese families who pursue international education for their children in Thailand. A mixed-methods approach was adopted, with data collected from 220 Chinese respondents to a survey and by means of 12 semi-structured interviews. The Chinese families emigrating from China to Chiang Mai in Thailand are representatives of the largely urbanized, well-educated middle-class families that today practice a circulatory transnational migration for the purpose of obtaining an education for their children. The findings show that compared with the conventional pathway of upper middle-class Chinese families emigrating to Western developed countries, middle-class Chinese families in Chiang Mai have adopted transient migratory practices for enhancing their children’s international education. The article discusses the childcare arrangements, division of parental responsibilities, income-earning activities, and desire for a good personal lifestyle among Chinese parents with children undergoing education in Chang Mai.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341486
Cheun Hoe Yow
{"title":"Behind Barbed Wire: Chinese New Villages During the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960, written by Teng Phee Tan","authors":"Cheun Hoe Yow","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341486","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41581532","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 : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341467
Shaohua Zhan (占少华)
This paper examines identity transformation among Chinese migrants in Singapore in the context of transnationalism and widespread use of ICT s (Information and Communication Technologies). Based on how strongly migrants identify with the homeland and the host country, the paper constructs four ideal types of identity: transnational, assimilatory, sojourning, and cosmopolitan. The study finds that the most common identity is the transnational sort, characterized by the migrant identifying strongly with both homeland and host country. Nevertheless, migrants also hold other identities including those beyond the four ideal types, demonstrating the diversity and fluidity of migrants’ identity transformation. The paper also examines the factors that affect migrants’ identity transformation.
{"title":"Homeland, Host Country, and Beyond: Identity Transformation among Chinese Migrants in Singapore","authors":"Shaohua Zhan (占少华)","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341467","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper examines identity transformation among Chinese migrants in Singapore in the context of transnationalism and widespread use of ICT s (Information and Communication Technologies). Based on how strongly migrants identify with the homeland and the host country, the paper constructs four ideal types of identity: transnational, assimilatory, sojourning, and cosmopolitan. The study finds that the most common identity is the transnational sort, characterized by the migrant identifying strongly with both homeland and host country. Nevertheless, migrants also hold other identities including those beyond the four ideal types, demonstrating the diversity and fluidity of migrants’ identity transformation. The paper also examines the factors that affect migrants’ identity transformation.","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47541391","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 : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341471
Tienshi Chen (陈天玺)
This paper investigates Burmese migrants of Chinese descent, particularly those living in Japan. Many migrants’ fathers or grandfathers originally migrated to Burma/Myanmar due to political turbulence back in China. Studies on overseas Chinese often focus on migration to countries such as Japan, the US, Indonesia, or Burma/Myanmar. Little research has thus far considered families who later embark on a secondary migration to Japan. I traced the family histories of two Sino-Burmese leaders of the Burmese community in Japan. Based on interviews and fieldwork in Japan and Burma/Myanmar between 2016 and 2018, I explored what it means to be a Chinese minority living in Burma/Myanmar. Such people faced a glass ceiling due to ethnic discrimination linked to political instability. Roots in China, nativity in Burma/Myanmar, and migration to Japan and the US tend to create multiple identities. After migrating to Japan, they claimed Burmese identity and used their Japan connections and identity to organize Burmese pro-democracy actions. One ran a sushi restaurant after further migration to the US.
{"title":"Sino-Burmese Secondary Migration and Identity: Tracing Family Histories","authors":"Tienshi Chen (陈天玺)","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341471","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper investigates Burmese migrants of Chinese descent, particularly those living in Japan. Many migrants’ fathers or grandfathers originally migrated to Burma/Myanmar due to political turbulence back in China. Studies on overseas Chinese often focus on migration to countries such as Japan, the US, Indonesia, or Burma/Myanmar. Little research has thus far considered families who later embark on a secondary migration to Japan. I traced the family histories of two Sino-Burmese leaders of the Burmese community in Japan. Based on interviews and fieldwork in Japan and Burma/Myanmar between 2016 and 2018, I explored what it means to be a Chinese minority living in Burma/Myanmar. Such people faced a glass ceiling due to ethnic discrimination linked to political instability. Roots in China, nativity in Burma/Myanmar, and migration to Japan and the US tend to create multiple identities. After migrating to Japan, they claimed Burmese identity and used their Japan connections and identity to organize Burmese pro-democracy actions. One ran a sushi restaurant after further migration to the US.","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45072582","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 : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341473
F. Lim
{"title":"Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819–2000, written by Jean DeBernardi","authors":"F. Lim","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43322047","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 : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341469
Josh Stenberg (石峻山)
This article focuses on three themes in contemporary Chinese-language verse from Indonesia: nationhood, language use, and the trauma of history. Through these themes, Chinese-language poets in Indonesia work through the many ways of being a speaker of Chinese in Indonesia, sometimes as an excluded alien, sometimes as a valued ally, and sometimes as an integrated minority. Such work provides unusual perspectives and tones to contribute to the much-discussed questions of Chinese-Indonesian identity, and functions as a reminder that literary corpora diverge within the “same” ethnic minority by linguistic expression. Borrowing a line from one of the most active poets, Sha Ping, this article suggests that Indonesians writing in Chinese are engaged on a quest to “find the distant homeland here” in Indonesia, even as they honor the trauma of history, the achievements of China, and the language of their ancestors.
{"title":"“Finding the Distant Homeland Here”: Contemporary Indonesian Poetry in Chinese","authors":"Josh Stenberg (石峻山)","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341469","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article focuses on three themes in contemporary Chinese-language verse from Indonesia: nationhood, language use, and the trauma of history. Through these themes, Chinese-language poets in Indonesia work through the many ways of being a speaker of Chinese in Indonesia, sometimes as an excluded alien, sometimes as a valued ally, and sometimes as an integrated minority. Such work provides unusual perspectives and tones to contribute to the much-discussed questions of Chinese-Indonesian identity, and functions as a reminder that literary corpora diverge within the “same” ethnic minority by linguistic expression. Borrowing a line from one of the most active poets, Sha Ping, this article suggests that Indonesians writing in Chinese are engaged on a quest to “find the distant homeland here” in Indonesia, even as they honor the trauma of history, the achievements of China, and the language of their ancestors.","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45999851","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 : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1163/17932548-12341475
Yan Yang
{"title":"Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History, written by Wayne Soon","authors":"Yan Yang","doi":"10.1163/17932548-12341475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51941,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Overseas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44996433","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}
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