Migration and identity

WEEK 18 The Overseas Chinese

22.2.2005

The biggest and most diverse group by far, so only a few aspects of the overseas Chinese will be covered. If you have difficulty with the main reading, pick two destination countries and compare and contrast the Chinese communities in those countries (a lot of choice below)
Lever-Tracy, Constance. (1996) The Chinese diaspora and mainland China: an emerging economic synergy Basingstoke: Macmillan*

The Special Issue of Daedulus 20 (2) 1991*

Cohen, Robin (1997) Global diasporas: an introduction, 85-94

Chan, Kwok Bun and Ong Jin Hui (1995) ‘The many faces of immigration entrepreneurship’ in Robin Cohen (ed.) The Cambridge survey of world migration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 523–31*

Ong, Aihwa; Nonini, Donald (1997) Ungrounded empires. The cultural politics of modern Chinese transnationalism, London: Routledge**

Baker, H. D. R. (1968) The Chinese in Southeast Asia, London: Oxford University Press

Baker, Hugh D.R. (1994) Branches All Over: The Hong Kong Chinese in the United Kingdon, in Ronald Skeldon, (ed.) Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 291-307

Barone, G. (1991) ‘Travelling heavy – the intellectual baggage of the Chinese diaspora’, Problems of communism, 40 (1–2), 94–112

Benton, Gregor and Frank N. Pieke, (eds) (1997) The Chinese in Europe, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Benton, Gregor and Hans Vermeulen, (1987) The Chinese: migrants in Dutch Society, Muidenbergh: Coutinho

Carino, T. (eds) (1985) Chinese in the Philippines, Manila: De La Salle University

Cator, W. J. (1936) The economic position of the Chinese in Netherlands India, Chicago: University of Chicago Press {Indonesia}

Ch’en, J. (1979) China and the west, London: Hutchinson

Cheah, B. K. (1983) Red star over Malaya: resistance and social conflict during and after the Japanese occupation, 1941-1946, Singapore University Press

Chen, J. (1980) The Chinese of America, New York: Harper and Row

Chen, T. (1939) Emigrant communities in South China: a study of overseas migration and its influence on standards of living and social change, London: Oxford University Press

Chia-ling, K. (1977) Social and political change in New York’s Chinatown: the role of voluntary associations, New York: Praegar

Cohen, Myron L. (1991) ‘Being Chinese: the peripheralization of traditional identity’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 113–35

Coppel, C. A. (1983) Indonesian Chinese in crisis, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press for the Asian Studies Association of Australia

Coughlin, R. J. (1960) Double identity: the Chinese in modern Thailand, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press

Cushman, J. et al. (eds) (1989) Changing identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II, Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press

Daniels, R. (1989) Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850, Seattle: University of Washington Press

Esman, Milton J. (1986) ‘The Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia’ in Gabriel Sheffer (ed.) Modern diasporas in international politics, London: St. Martin’s Press, 130-164

Fitzgerald, C. P. (1972) China and the overseas Chinese: A Study of Peking’s changing policy, 1949–1970, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Glick, C. E. (1980) Sojourners and settlers, Honolulu: Hawaii University Press

Gosling, L. A. P. et al. (eds) (1983) The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Maruzen Asia

Hodder, R. (1996) Merchant princes of the East, Chichester: Wiley

Ip, David (1996) ‘Diaspora capitalism and the homeland: Australian-Chinese networks into China’, Diaspora, 5 (2)

Ip, David (1996) The Chinese diaspora and mainland China, an emerging economic synergy, Houndmills, Basingstike: Macmillan

Kuo, C.-l. (1977) Social and political change in New York’s Chinatown: the role of voluntary associations, New York: Praeger

Kwong, Peter (1987) The New Chinatown, New York: Hill and Wang*

Lach, D. F. (1968) China in the eyes of Europe, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985; Phoenix, 1968

Lim, L. Y. C. et al. (ed.) (1983) The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Maruzen Asia

Ling-chi Wang, L. (1991) ‘Roots and changing identity of the Chinese in the United States’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 181–207

Mackie, J. A. C. (ed.) (1976) The Chinese in Indonesia, Singapore: Heinemann

MacNair, F. H. (1924) The Chinese abroad, Shanghai: Commercial Press

Ng, B. F. (1959) The Chinese in New Zealand, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press

Ng, K. C. (1968) The Chinese in London, London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations

Pan, Lynn (1991) Sons of the yellow emperor: the story of the overseas Chinese, London: Mandarin* {good popular account}

Parker, David (1995) Through different eyes: the cultural identities of young Chinese people in Britain, Aldershot: Avebury

Pieke, F.N. and G. Benton (eds) (1997) The Chinese in Europe, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Pieke, F.N. and H. Mallee (eds) Chinese migrants and European Chinese: perspectives on internal and international migration, Richmond: Curzon Press (forthcoming)

Poston, Dudley Jr.; Mei-Yu, Yu (1990) ‘The distribution of overseas Chinese in the contemporary world’, International Migration Review, 24, 480-508

Purcell, V. (1965) The Chinese in Southeast Asia, London: Oxford University Press

Purcell, V. (1967) The Chinese in Malaya, London: Oxford University Press

Salmon, C. (1983) ‘Taoke or Coolie? Chinese Visions of the Chinese Diaspora’, Archipel, (26)

Shang, A. (1984) The Chinese in Britain, London: Batsford Academic and Educational

Sinn, E. (ed.) (1998), The last half-century of Chinese overseas, Hong Kong University Press

Skeldon, R. (ed.) (1994) Reluctant exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the new overseas Chinese, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press

T’ien, J. K. (1953) The Chinese of Sarawak, London: London School of Economics, Monographs on Social Anthropology

Trolliet, P (1994) ‘The diaspora and the Chinese-speaking world’ Geopolitique, 46, 56-60

Trolliet, P. (1995) ‘The Chinese diaspora in Indonesia’, Geopolitique, 50, 67-71

Tu Wei-ming (1991) ‘Cultural China: the periphery as the center’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 1–32, Spring

Tu Wei-ming (1991) ‘Cultural China: the periphery as the center’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 1–32

Wang, Gungwu (1978) The Chinese minority in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Chopmen

Wang, Gungwu (1981) Community and nation: essays on Southeast Asia and the Chinese, Singapore: ASAA Monographs

Wang, Gungwu (1982) ‘External China’ in B. Hook (ed). The Cambridge encyclopedia of China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Wang, Gungwu (1991) ‘Among non-Chinese’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 135–58*

Wang, Gungwu (1991) China and the Chinese overseas, Singapore: Times Academic Press

Wang, Gungwu (1992) Community and nation: China, southeast Asia and Australia, St Leonards, Australia: Allen and Unwin for the Asian Studies Association of Australia

Wang, L. L. (1991) ‘Roots and Changing Identity of the Chinese in the United States’, in Daedalus, 20 (2), pp.181-206

Wang, L. L. (1991) ‘Roots and changing identity of the Chinese in the United States’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 181-206

Weidenbaum, M. and Hughes, S. (1996) The Bamboo network: how expatriate Chinese entrepreneurs are creatig a new economic superpower in Asia, New York: The Free Press

Willmott, W. E. (1970) The political structure of the Chinese community in Cambodia, London: Athlone Press

Yeo-chi King, Ambrose (1991) ‘Kuan-hsi and network building: a sociological interpretation’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 63–84, Spring

Yeo-chi King, Ambrose (1991) ‘Kuan-hsi and network building: a sociological interpretation’, Daedalus, 20 (2), 63–84

Self check: You should have a basic understanding of the dimensions and importance of the Chinese diaspora and have a closer knowledge of Chinese in at least two countries where Chinese settled (other than Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan)