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The Homeland: Thinking About the History of Chinese Overseas

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Is there a history of the Chinese overseas? If there is such a single history, how does it square with the fact that migration has brought Chinese into numerous non-Chinese societies, where their “history†is being diffracted into the separate histories of their host societies? This paper will consider first the Homeland as it shaped the people who emigrated from it; then the Homeland as a transformer of Chinese consciousness overseas. The argument is that historical experience taught emigrants valuable skills for survival overseas; but the emergence of a modernizing nation-state in China, beginning in the late nineteenth century, had the effect of exposing Chinese overseas to dangers that threatened them in unexpected ways. [George Ernest Morrison Lecture on Ethnography, 1997, The Contemporary China Centre]

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  • Philip Kuhn, 2006. "The Homeland: Thinking About the History of Chinese Overseas," Working Papers id:729, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:729
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