1st Edition

Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China

By Glen Peterson Copyright 2012
242 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 and their descendants who "returned" to the People’s Republic in order to pursue higher education... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Transnational Families Under Siege  3. Youdai (优待): The Making of a Special Category  4. Open for Business: The Quest for Remittances and Investment  5. Patriots, Refugees, Tycoons and Students: ‘Returning’ to China in the 1950s  6. Socialist Transformation and the end of Youdai (优待)

Biography

Glen Peterson is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, Canada.