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1. Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

   A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

   By Pál Nyiri

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China

   By Glen Peterson

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

   By Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several...

   Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
4. Chinese Migrants and Internationalism

   Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945

   By Gregor Benton

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
5. The Politics of Rural Reform in China

   State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s

   By Christian Göbel

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also...

   Published May 23rd 2010 by Routledge
6. Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era

   Edited by Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate the world economy and financial markets, the capital markets pf Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, and Shenzen have matured considerably and are...

   Published December 14th 2009 by Routledge
7. Chinese Transnational Networks

   Edited by Chee-Beng Tan

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or ...

   Published July 23rd 2009 by Routledge
8. Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

   By Kwok-bun Chan

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal...

   Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge
9. Chinese Ethnic Business

   Global and Local Perspectives

   Edited by Eric Fong, Chiu Luk

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to the process of globalization, specifically economic globalization, in the key receiving countries of the US,...

   Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge
10. Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949

    Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates

    By Hung-yok Ip

    Series: Chinese Worlds

    This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution....

    Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge