{"product_id":"seeing-transnationally-how-chinese-migrants-make-their-dreams-come-true-9789058679017","title":"Seeing Transnationally: How Chinese Migrants Make","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCo-publication with Zhejiang University Press\u003cbr\u003eWorldwide selling rights excl. China\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories and experiences of Chinese migrants\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays by Li Minghuan, an early new migrant-scholar herself, documents the extraordinary story of Chinese transnational migration. The book represents over two decades of untiring empirical field research, going where the migrants go - the Netherlands, France, Canada - and where they come from - Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Mingxi in Fujian - in order to observe, and to listen, with an unwaveringly sympathetic eye and ear, to what they, their families, their neighbours, their brokers, and their local officials have to say. Coupled with the historian's craft of painstaking archival research, these village and community case studies not only cover an astounding geographical orbit of sending and receiving areas, but also a broad diversity and range of migrant types and situations both historical and contemporary, from illegal and refugee migration, to official labor export, to the migration of students and professionals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnyhow, there is no doubt that this book does convey the rich and immensely varied experiences of Chinese migrants and their families at all ends of the migration networks, and it sheds new light on the ongoing Chinese transnational migration studies. I would thus highly recommend it to both scholars and readers with a more general interest in Chinese migration and diaspora. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames K. Chin, Research School of Overseas Chinese, Jinan University, China, Journal of Chinese Overseas 10 (2014) 263-278\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe strength of this book is also its weakness: the great range of topics covered. Some of these topics have received relatively little attention in the literature, such as the Chinese migration to Israel or the villages established for ethnic migrants from Indonesia. [...] Li Minghuan has done great service over almost a quarter of a century in pioneering different approaches to the topic of Chinese transnational migration.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRonald Skeldon, University of Sussex, Pacific Affairs Volume 88, Issue 4 (December 2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e Field Research at Multiple Ends of Chinese Migration Networks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I Empirical Studies from Sites of Origin\u003cbr\u003e1 \"To Get Rich Quickly in Europe!\" Reflections on the Motivations For Transnational Migration in Wenzhou\u003cbr\u003e2 \u003cem\u003eQiaoxiang\u003c\/em\u003e in Wenzhou Revisited: Understanding Village Loyalty in the Age of Globalization\u003cbr\u003e3 Transforming Contingency into Meaning. An Emergent \u003cem\u003eQiaoxiang \u003c\/em\u003ein South China\u003cbr\u003e4 Making a Living at the Interface of Legality and Illegality: Chinese Migrant Workers in Israel\u003cbr\u003e5 Playing Edge Ball: Transnational Migration Brokerage in China\u003cbr\u003e6 Collective Symbols and Individual Options: Life on a State Farm for Returned Overseas Chinese after Decollectivization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Il Empirical Studies from Sites of Destination\u003cbr\u003e7 Formalizing the Transnational Network: A Study on European-wide Chinese Voluntary Associations\u003cbr\u003e8 Making a Living in an Affluent World: Chinese Immigrants in Europe\u003cbr\u003e9 Living between Three Walls? The Peranakan Chinese in the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e10 A Group in Transition: Chinese Students and Scholars in the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e11 Everybody Acts Independently: A Study of the Refugee Determination Process in British Columbia, Canada\u003cbr\u003e12 The Chinese in Europe: Population, Economy and Links with Qiaoxiang in the Early 21st-century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Ill Learning from Archives and Literature\u003cbr\u003e13 Dezelfde he? \"The Dutch Are the European Chinese\" -Reflections\u003cbr\u003e14 Understanding the Tandjoeng Cemetery Archives: Chinese Society in 19th-century Batavia\u003cbr\u003e15 From \"Sons of the Yellow Emperor\" to \"Children of Indonesian Soil\" : Exploring 19th-century Chinese Society Based on the Batavia Kong Koan Archives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcluding Remarks \u003c\/em\u003eMyths of Creation and the Creation of Myths: Interrogating Chinese Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eEndnotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360807780695,"sku":"9789058679017","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789058679017.jpg?v=1754128491","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seeing-transnationally-how-chinese-migrants-make-their-dreams-come-true-9789058679017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}