Diaspora Space-Time : Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community /

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"This book explores the transformations of a former emigrant village that has become part of the city of Shenzhen and its booming economy. It examines the community's changing relationship with its diaspora around the world over the long twentieth century and in the context of China's...

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Main Author: Tremon, Anne-Christine, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Chinese diaspora.
China.
China > Emigration and immigration > History > 21st century.
China > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
China > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
China > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A globalized lineage
  • The shifting landscape of donations
  • Collective funds and the moral economy of surplus
  • Saving the ancestral sites, mobilizing for the public good
  • Reversed feng shui and sociodicies of (im)mobility
  • Ritual renewal and spatiotemporal fusion
  • Returning to one's roots: journeys and quests
  • Global brotherhood without close kin
  • Conclusion: Chinese globalization and the changing value of scales.

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