1st Edition

Transnational Ties, Local Lives Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation

By Qiuping Pan Copyright 2025
232 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation delves into the evolving civic life and organisational structures of Chinese diaspora communities. Drawing on rich, multi-method ethnographic research in Australia, this book unveils the dynamic ways ethnic Chinese communities self-organise, offering a new theoretical framework to dissect the... Read more

 1. Introduction  2. Ethnic Community Organising – A Co-evolutionary Framework  3. How China Matters: The Rise of Transnational China-engaging Activism and Chinese Qiaowu Work  4. How Australia Matters: The Rise of Local Activism and Australian Factors at Play  5. The Making and Remaking of Community Leadership  6. Women in Community Organising  7. A Redrawn Organisational Landscape  8. Conclusion

Biography

Qiuping Pan is a lecturer at Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Her research centres on migration and mobility as frameworks for understanding social and political transformations. Her work examines diverse patterns of human movement and their implications, exploring issues such as citizenship practices, civic participation, social reproduction, state-society dynamics, and mobility governance, with particular focus on the contexts of China and Australia.