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Coming Home to a Foreign Country

Coming Home to a Foreign Country

Ong, Soon Keong

Hardcover

Chinese HistoryGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1501756184
ISBN13: 9781501756184
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: Aug 15 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed.

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