Chinese Transnational Networks (Hardcover)

Introduction: Chinese overseas, China, transnational networks, and homelandsTan Chee-Beng Part 1: Transformation in Ancestral Homeland 1. Comings and goings: Pearl River Delta identities in an era of change and transformation Graham E. Johnson 2. Transforming an old qiaoxiang: impacts of the Chinese diaspora on Panyu, 1978?2000 Yow Cheun Hoe Part 2:Ethnic Chinese, China and Transnational Networks The Shishan Ye people in Malaysia and the ancestral homeland in ChinaTan Chee-Beng 3. Lukchin: Chinese Thai transnational bridge builders Jiemin Bao 4. Ethnic homeland and Chinese Americans: conceiving atransnational political network Pei-te Lien 5. The Comintern and Chinese Overseas Gregor Benton Part 3:Diversity of Settlements and Homelands 6. Qiaoxiang and the diversity of Chinese Settlements in Australia and New Zealand H.D. Min-hsi Chan 7. A Chinese diasporic community in northern Thailand: contested political loyalty and shifting ethnicity Huang Shu-min 8. The Chinese of Trinidad and Tobago: mobility, modernity, and assimilation during and after colonialism Walton Look Lai