Diaspora space-time: Transformations of a Chinese emigrant community by Anne-Christine Tremon

• Main Author: LIU, Jiaqi M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Demography, Population, and Ecology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3903; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5161/viewcontent/liu_2023_book_review_diaspora_space_time_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In Diaspora Space-Time, anthropologist Anne-Christine Trémon provides an in-depth ethnography of how the relationship between Chinese diasporas and their hometown communities transformed in the midst of the rapid urban, economic, political, and social changes in China. Building on Trémon’s previous research on Chinese diasporas in Tahiti, this book follows in their footsteps as they embark on return trips to “search for their roots” (p. 167) in their ancestral hometown village in Shenzhen, China. While Overseas Chinese studies have traditionally focused on China’s dependency on Chinese diasporas during the reform era since the 1980s, this book joins the latest research on Global China to provide more nuanced and timely insights into the evolving roles of Chinese diasporas in China’s geopolitical ascendence and ethno-nationalist revival (Chen 2022; Liu 2022).