Diaspora’s homeland : modern China in the age of global migration

In a 2004 lecture entitled “Why China Historians Should Study the Chinese Diaspora, and Vice-versa,” the renowned historian Philip A. Kuhn made the case for the intermingled processes of modern Chinese history and the history of Chinese emigration. Continuing these efforts of cross-fertilization by...

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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1464452023-03-11T20:05:43Z Diaspora’s homeland : modern China in the age of global migration van Dongen, Els School of Humanities Humanities::History Chinese Diaspora Shelly Chan Book Reviews In a 2004 lecture entitled “Why China Historians Should Study the Chinese Diaspora, and Vice-versa,” the renowned historian Philip A. Kuhn made the case for the intermingled processes of modern Chinese history and the history of Chinese emigration. Continuing these efforts of cross-fertilization by Philip A. Kuhn and, among others, Madeline Y. Hsu, Adam M. McKeown, and Glen Peterson, in Diaspora’s Homeland, Shelly Chan puts in dialogue the fields of overseas Chinese, Chinese American, and modern Chinese history. Unlike in other accounts, however, the book’s starting point is the overlooked question: “How did it change China?” (1). This question goes beyond earlier approaches that Chan characterizes as “the sum of parts,” namely mapping distributions of Chinese in “fixed” countries and regions, or “interactions between parts,” namely outlining transnational connections at various levels (7-8). Instead, the book is preoccupied with the emigrants’ influence on China and how diaspora-homeland dynamics transformed China into an invented permanent “homeland.” Accepted version 2021-02-17T05:33:52Z 2021-02-17T05:33:52Z 2018 Journal Article van Dongen, E. (2020). Diaspora’s homeland : modern China in the age of global migration. Journal of Social History, 53(3), 868-870. doi:10.1093/jsh/shy095 0022-4529 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146445 10.1093/jsh/shy095 3 53 868 870 en Journal of Social History © 2018 The Author(s). All rights reserved. This paper was published by Oxford University Press in Journal of Social History and is made available with permission of The Author(s). application/pdf
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Diaspora’s homeland : modern China in the age of global migration
description In a 2004 lecture entitled “Why China Historians Should Study the Chinese Diaspora, and Vice-versa,” the renowned historian Philip A. Kuhn made the case for the intermingled processes of modern Chinese history and the history of Chinese emigration. Continuing these efforts of cross-fertilization by Philip A. Kuhn and, among others, Madeline Y. Hsu, Adam M. McKeown, and Glen Peterson, in Diaspora’s Homeland, Shelly Chan puts in dialogue the fields of overseas Chinese, Chinese American, and modern Chinese history. Unlike in other accounts, however, the book’s starting point is the overlooked question: “How did it change China?” (1). This question goes beyond earlier approaches that Chan characterizes as “the sum of parts,” namely mapping distributions of Chinese in “fixed” countries and regions, or “interactions between parts,” namely outlining transnational connections at various levels (7-8). Instead, the book is preoccupied with the emigrants’ influence on China and how diaspora-homeland dynamics transformed China into an invented permanent “homeland.”
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