Author: Lynn Pan

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Publishing year: 1990

Call number: DS732.P187

Description: This book looks at why the emigrants left China; how their dispersal was shaped and stimulated by the commercial ambitions of imperial powers such as Britain and Holland; how they transformed raw, all-male frontier grouping they formed into complex communities organized by clan, dialect and secret society; and the ways in which they were affected by the fictionalization of stock Chinese types into Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan. Ms.Pan introduces us to the seemingly closed world of the overseas Chinese, illuminating the emigrant experience and exploding their familiar stereotype of “inscrutability.”