{"product_id":"coming-home-to-a-foreign-country-9781501756184","title":"Coming Home to a Foreign Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his is an excellent historical account of the role of emigrants in the making of Xiamen and is presented in a readable and theoretically important volume.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Middle Ground Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Coming Home to a Foreign Country does not engage in the urban qiaoxiang debate, Ong's work proves that it was possible – even worthwhile – to study the impact of migrants on the city, as well as the interactions between rural and urban China, through return migration. Ong's historiography also succeeds in chronicling the migrant cycle: The return of \"old hands\" perpetuated the cycle, and this ultimately re-made Xiamen the hub of Southern Fujianese migration.\u003c\/p\u003e * International Institute for Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOng Soon Keong revisits these questions with a new twist[.]\u003c\/p\u003e * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Defining Xiamen: Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839–1842)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Opening for Business: Xiamen as a Treaty Port\u003cbr\u003e 3. Facilitating Migration: Xiamen as a Migration Hub\u003cbr\u003e 4. Manipulating Identities: State and Opportunities in Xiamen\u003cbr\u003e 5. Transforming Xiamen: Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 6. Making Home: Xiamen as Destination and Home\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409352106327,"sku":"9781501756184","price":47.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501756184.jpg?v=1730506519","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coming-home-to-a-foreign-country-9781501756184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}