Steven B Miles

Chinese Diasporas

A Social History of Global Migration

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Produktbeschreibung

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 180mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107179929
• ISBN-10: 1107179920
• Artikelnr.: 58702985

Autorenporträt

Steven Miles is Professor of History at Washington University, St Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Framing Chinese migration
1. Early modern patterns, 1500-1740
2. Migration in the prosperous age, 1740-1840
3. The age of mass migration, 1840-1937
4. The Chinese state and the politics of diaspora, 1860s-1940s
5. Disruptions and diasporic communities in the mid-twentieth century
6. The 'floating population' and 'new migrants', 1980s-present
7. Transnational Chinese, 1990s-present
8. Is there a Chinese diaspora?