Introduction: Chinese overseas, China, transnational networks, and homelands Tan 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 China Tan Chee-Beng 3. Lukchin: Chinese Thai transnational bridge builders Jiemin Bao 4. Ethnic homeland and Chinese Americans: conceiving a transnational 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
Biography
Tan Chee-Beng is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
'This thought-provoking collection of essays offers a nuanced reading into the relationship between China and the "Chinese of different nationalities"'- Sin Wen Lau, The China Journal, January 2008
