Author: Hugh Baker

Publisher: B.T. Batsford Ltd, London

Publishing Year: 1987

Call Number: DS732.B167

Description: In 1859 Quong Tart, millions of Chinese to leave China in the nineteenth century despite the fact that until 1893 it was illegal to do so without special permission from the Emperor.

That migration has continued well into the twentieth century, and today there are some 27 million Hua-Qiao – ” Overseas Chinese ” – living in communities in most countries of the world. Hugh Baker here tells their story. There are chapters on Quong Tart: A Chinese Success Story; China Fills Up; Life in China; Off the Bottom; How They Went; To Thailand; To Singapore and Malaya; To Australia; Fitting In.