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See, Teresita, Ed. Intercultural
Relations, Cultural Transformation, and Identity: The Ethnic Chinese.
(Selected papers presented at the 1998 ISSCO Conference).
Manila: Para Sa Kaunlaran Inc., 2000. One of the latest additions to Kaisa'a list of publications, the book covers the ethnic Chinese in Africa, Europe and America; Asia and the Pacific; Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Among the writers are Anthony Reid, Charles Coppel, Wang Gungwu, Ramses Amer, Professor Aasen, Leo Suryadinata, Tan Chee Beng, Manying Ip, Mely Tan, Eugene Tan and many many more. The Chinese papers will be in a separate volume. For
ordering information, kindly email the Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran,
Inc. at kaisa@philonline.com
This book provides an analysis and
interpretation of the business conduct of the ethnic Chinese of
Southeast and East Asia. The focus is on the emergence, utilization,
and maintenance of business networks and connections (as processes and
as 'things') among the ethnic Chinese worldwide, often providing
cogent evidence from comparisons of different economies.
"Chinese American writers transform a
historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an
intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine
autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one
to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist
discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of
Chinese American literature. As a consequence, the question
"What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an
affirmation of what a Chinese American is."--BOOK JACKET. Freedman,
Amy L. Political
Participation and Ethnic Minorities : Chinese Overseas in Malaysia,
Indonesia, and the United States New York: Routledge, 2000. This study examines different forms of political participation of Chinese
overseas in three countries and the consequent influence they could
wield in the political process of these countries. Gambe,
Annabelle. Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship and
Capitalist Development in Southeast Asia. New York : St
Martin’s Press, 2000. "The study aims at finding an explanation
to the economic development of Southeast Asia. To achieve this end,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines have been chosen
as the foci of the study." "To explain the region's recent
success, the study is guided by the hypothesis that overseas Chinese
entrepreneurship, exercised by a group belonging to a discriminated
ethnic minority, is an indispensable component of the capitalist
development of Southeast Asia."--BOOK JACKET
This volume focuses solely on works by and about Asian-Australians, bringing together cutting-edge essays on literature, film, theatre, the visual arts, and cultural history. Broad themes include racial and cultural politics, hybridity, diasporic identities, desire and sexuality, transnationalism. Also included are poems, a theatre script, short fiction, and visual images by Asian-Australian creative writers and artists. The book as a whole emphasises the urgency of reinscribing Asian histories into Australian cultural landscapes as well as mapping contemporary expressions of the Asian diaspora in John Howard's post-multicultural Australia. Contents include a critical introduction, 17 essays, and various creative works. To order, please make payment (include cheque or credit card details) to: University of Queensland Press, PO Box 6042, St Lucia QLD 4067, AUSTRALIA Sales Phone: (07) 3365 2440 / Sales Fax: (07) 3365 1988 Price: AUD$21.90 (includes GST) [Please add AUD$10 per copy if you wish your order to be sent overseas by airmail] For
for information please visit Hsu, Madeline Y. Dreaming
of Gold, Dreaming of Home : Transnationalism and Migration Between
the United States and South China, 1882-1943.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. This book is a study of transnationalism among
immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China
from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States
originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as
gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and
interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history,
the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had
heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in
China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in "Gold
Mountain."--BOOK JACKET.
Nanyang University (Nantah) was the only Chinese language institution of higher learning outside China. Its establishment marked a milestone in the development of education among Chinese Overseas. When Mr Tan Lark Sye proposed the founding of a Chinese language university in 1953, his vision was received with great enthusiasm by the Chinese communities in Singapore, Malaya and other parts of Southeast Asia. Generous donations in cash and kind came from Chinese in all walks of life, from rich tycoons to poor hawkers and peddlers. However, the university soon encountered a series of setbacks and turbulence. Although Nantah was able to establish itself rapidly as an institution offering quality education, it succumbed at the end to a host of pressures. In its brief 25 25-year history, from 1956 to 1980, the university was a beacon of Chinese language education and culture in Southeast Asia. The university and the values it inculcated in a generation of students embody what is known as The Nantah Spirit. Nantah is widely regarded as a unique chapter in the annals of Chinese Overseas experience. Each of the 125 photographs presented in this book tells a thousand stories about hopes, idealism, commitment and self-sacrifices. They capture the unprecedented spirit behind the founding of Nantah, its growth and demise. It is a rich story that still evokes strong emotions among many. For
more purchase details, email the Chinese
Heritage Centre Lee Kam
Hing and Tan Chee-Beng, eds. The Chinese
in Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 2000.
The articles in this volume include: The contributors are all Chinese
Malaysians or originated from Malaysia, and each writes on the topic
of his or her own specialization. The Foreword is written by Prof.
Wang Gungwu.
Ng Wing Chung. The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80:
The Pursuit of Identity and Power. Contemporary Chinese Studies
Series. Vancouver: UBC
Press, 2000. In The Chinese in Vancouver,
Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese
in their search for identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions
of different generations of Chinese immigrants and their Canadian-born
descendants, and unveils the ongoing struggle over the definition
of being Chinese. It is an engrossing story about cultural identity
in the context of migration and settlement, where the influence
of the native land and the appeal of the host city continued to
impinge on the consciousness of ethnic Chinese.
“Exploring the meaning and arrangement of
Chinese family names, the bonds among family members, and the
different contexts of "self" to Chinese Americans, this
book offers you insight into the dilemma between "self"
and "family" that both the younger and older generations
must face in American society." "In order to help you
understand Chinese immigrants or help your clients, Chinese
Americans and Their Immigrant Parents provides you with
information about several differences found between the two
cultures."--BOOK JACKET
"This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco, relating the development of various social and cultural institutions, ranging from brothels to the powerful "Six Companies." The book recaptures in vivid detail not only the community's collective mentalities but also the lives of ordinary people - laborers, theater-goers, gamblers, and prostitutes. In so doing, the author achieves what has been missing from virtually all the historiographic writing on the Chinese in America - he brings to life individual personalities with their varying human qualities."--BOOK JACKET Asian Culture, no 24 (June 2000) Articles
in English in this volume include “From Skipper to Deified
Ancestor: The worship of Kongco in East Java and Bali, 18th-20th
Centuries” by Claudine Salmon and Myra Sidharta, “The Changing
Structure of Chinese American Communities: Conflict and Co-operation
in San Diego by Zeng Ying, “Searching for Alternative Aesthetics
in the Chinese Theatre: The Odyssey of Huang Zuolin and Gao Xingjian”
by Quah Sy Ren, “Chinese Pawnbroking Business in a Pre-war Malay
State: The Case of Kedah” by Wu Xiaoan, “”The First Chinese
Language Newspaper of Java, 1852-1857? By Claudine Salmon,
“Batavia’s Chinese Society in Transition: Indications based on
the Tandjoeng Cemetery Archives, 1811-1896” by Li Minghuan.
Articles in Chinese include “Burial Grounds Administration, Common
Ancestry and Bang Associations: Singapore Chinese Society in the 19th
century” by Zeng Ling, “Debating the Beginning of
Malayan-Chinese Literature” by Guo Huifen, “Early History of the
Guangdong Association in Singapore” by Yeap Chong Leng. Chinese Business History, vol, 10, no. 2 (Fall 2000) Articles in this volume include a report by Denise Austin on the July 2000 International Workshop on Industrial Relations in East Asia sponsored by the Asian Business History Center of the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Asian Pacific Council of Griffith University, a summary by Stephanie Po-yin Chung of her research on the Eu Yan Sang Medical Shop in China and Southeast Asia, Lee Douw’s report on the work of the Qiaoxiang Ties Programme of the International Institute of Asian Studies in the Netherlands, and an outline of Chinese business history sources available in Singapore compiled by Ng Chin-keong, Clement Liew, Keng We Koh and Tongbao Wee.
Ang See, Teresita, ed. The Ethnic Chinese as Filipinos: 3 parts. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on "The Ethnic Chinese as Filipinos". Quezon City, Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, 1999. 224 pages, illustrated, maps, tables.
cloth, US$75.00 (pb coming fall 2000).
Taiwanese immigrate to Australia and New Zealand for a better quality of life, and most successfully establish themselves in their new country. But what happens when immigrants’ hopes and expectations are not met? Either because they can’t get professional qualifications recognised or their business doesn’t successfully translate to their new country, some Taiwanese businessmen have become ‘astronauts’. They return to Taiwan to run their business, leaving their families to enjoy the lifestyle and education opportunities in Australia or New Zealand. This book focuses on a small segment of Asian immigrants, those from Taiwan, whose experiences mirror those of immigrants from other parts of the world. Based on interviews with over 80 opinion leaders in Australia and New Zealand, this book discusses immigration policies and issues, compares the situation in the two countries and recommends changes to immigration policy and practices. For
more details visit http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/philipgarside/bkastro.html
Chng, David
C.K. Heroic Images of Ming Loyalists:
A Study of the Spirit Tablets of the Ghee Hin Kongsi Leaders in
Singapore. Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 5. Singapore:
Singapore Society of Asian Studies, 1999. The author uses information recorded
on spirit tablets kept at the Five Tiger Shrine, Singapore, and
detailed reports on the secret societies in Singapore from Colonial
Office files kept in the Public Records Office in London to identify
the deceased named on their spirit tablets as Ghee Hin Kongsi leaders.
"'We Need Two Worlds' is a dissertation
which adds a considerable amount of new material to existing
knowledge of Chinese associations and their role in a Western
society. The situation in the Netherlands is comparable to Chinese
societies in other Western cities, such as New York and London. This
comprehensive study will help western students, academics, civil
servants, politicians and journalists with an interest in Chinese
culture gain a better understanding of the significance of these
associations abroad. It also explores the efforts carried out by the
Chinese migrants to benefit rather than suffer from the marginal
social position that often follows a long-distance transnational
migration."--BOOK JACKET. Nyiri, Pal. New Chinese migrants in Europe : the case of the Chinese community in Hungary. Aldershot, Hants : Ashgate, c1999. ISBN : 075461154X “This book is a political ethnography of recent migration from the People's Republic of China into Europe. It argues that the very high mobility and intensive communications of Chinese migrants enable them to maintain a transnational community within which they easily shift countries and social roles - from student to trader to worker - if doing so is economically expedient. This makes them the natural beneficiaries and users of the Western globalisation discourse, even more so that - contrary to culturalist explanations of global Chinese networks - anonymity, sovereign decision making, and freedom from social pressures are at least as important as family connections in motivating migration. Yet their identity discourse expresses an authentic "Chinese globalisation". Chinese migrants see themselves not as local minorities but as a "global minority" attached to China by a deterritorialised nationalism. This nationalism is not only encouraged by China's official discourse but also supported by the economic dependence of new migrants on cultural capital built up in China, which makes them less reliant on resources in their countries of residence."--BOOK JACKET
This is a study on the phenomenon of transnationality with reference to Chinese overseas in terms of cultural relations, cultural assimilation, and intercultural communication.
Pieke, Frank N. and Hein Mallee, Internal and International migration : Chinese perspectives. Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999. ISBN: 0700710760 "Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration. The book argues for the emergence of a Chinese world system in which internal and international mobility is a central and heterogeneous feature."--BOOK JACKET.
Tan Chee-Beng
and Zhang Xiaojun, eds. Bibliography
of Studies on Fujian With Special Reference to Minnan. Hong
Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 1999. Those who are interested in the "Hokkien"
may find this book useful.
"The economic boom which has occurred in
South China over the past two decades seems to confirm the existence
of a culturally unique Chinese-style capitalism. The business
ventures of South Chinese descendants from Hong Kong, Taiwan and
Southeast Asia directed back into mainland China are often
represented as being related to qiaoxiang ties, or ties of
sojourners with their hometowns. The cultivation of hometown ties is
part and parcel of the Chinese culture of establishing guanxi,
or relationships of mutual obligation between individuals, and
supports the construction of Chinese business networks. Applying an
interdisciplinary approach embracing anthropology, history and
political science to the understanding of how qiaoxiang ties
work in actual practice, this book critically examines the
relationship between culture, business and economic
development."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Ng, James. Windows on a Chinese Past, Dunedin: Otagoa Heritage Books, 1993. This outstanding historical scholarship is a four-volume history on the Chinese in New Zealand. The volumes are bound in top-class buckram and contain extensive illustrations, indexes and references. Together, they form the most important works on the history of Chinese migration and settlement in New Zealand Available from Otago Heritage Books, PO Box 6318, Dunedin North, New Zealand. Ph/Fax: +64-03-477 1500 Volume 1: NZ $95 |