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Book SynopsisSince the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world.
Traditionally, the study of immigrant communities has focused on internal factors, such as the leadership and social organization of the actors inside the communities. This book, however, turns attention to the exogenous factors, which have helped shape the lives of the Chinese diaspora. In doing so, it provides a valuable contribution to the recent literature, which focuses on the effect of globalisation on the Chinese overseas. Using a number of empirical case studies, including the San Francisco Bay, Canada, South Africa and Hungary, it provides an investigation into how Chinaâs contemporary position in the world has affected the identity of the various locales of the Chinese in different continents. Whilst demonstrating t
Table of Contents
Introduction: Contemporary China’s Rise and the Chinese Overseas
1. The Rise of China and Its Impact in the San Francisco Bay Area
2. From Cold War to Open Door: the Making of the Chinese in Canada, 1950-2015
3. From Multicultural Ethnic Migrants to the New Players of China’s Public Diplomacy: The Chinese in Australia
4. Rising China and the history of the South African Chinese
5. Cultural Ties and State’s Interests: Malaysian Chinese and China’s Rise
6. Rethniking "Pauk-Phaw": Chinese Migrants, Ethnic Interaction and China’s Rise
7. Loving the Money but Not the Migrants: Hungarian Attitudes toward the Chinese
8. Cuba, China and the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
9. Ethnically Diverse Diasporas and Migrations from China to Central Asia in the 21st Century: Origin and Contemporary Challenge with Special Reference to Kazakhstan
10. China’s New Global Position: Changing Policies towards the Chinese Diaspora in the 21st Century
