Author: Elizabeth Sinn

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Publishing year: 1998

Call number: DS732.L349

Description:

This book is an anthology of select papers presented at ‘The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas: Comparative Perspectives’ Conference held from 19 to 21 December 1994.

The Hong Kong conference, however,  was more focused in terms of time, being the first international meeting of its kind to concentrate on the post-war period which had witnessed fundamental changes among Chinese outside China.

The majority were related to one of the five themes chosen for the conference: changing economic activities of Chinese overseas, national, international and transnational; migration patterns; political participation in host countries; popular culture and ethnicity; family structure and gender issues.

Author: Ien Ang

Publisher:Routledge

Publishing Year: 2001

Call Number: DS732.A581

Description: In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. The starting-point for Ang’s discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself “faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty”-surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She wrties:’It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of “Chineseness”in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn’t speak Chinese; in the West I wa different because I looked Chinese.’

From this autobiographical beginning, And goes on to reflect upon tensions between ‘Asia’ and ‘the West’ at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of ‘Chineseness’ in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate ‘Chinese’ with ‘Asian’ identity.

Author: Wang Gungwu

Publisher: Times Academic Press

Publishing year: 2001

Call number: DS732.W246d

Description:This book describes this massive wave of migration and the smaller ones that occurred in the last three decades of the 20th century.

The migrations of recent decades have however been different in two respects:

• They have involved Chinese not only from greater China itself (Hong Kong,Taiwan and the mainland) but also from Southeast Asia and else where.
• The have involved those of high educational level.

The author looks at these different migrations mainly from the perspective of those who settled in Southeast Asia and , but also includes the experiences of those Chinese who have made their home in other parts of Asia, Australasia and North America.

作者：任贵祥

出版社：黑龙江人民出版社

出版年份：1998

索书号：DS732.R393

简介：该书是目前国内外第一部全面、系统、深入地研究孙中山与华侨关系的著作。该著史料翔实丰富，运用了内地和台湾的有关资料，并吸收了海峡两岸学界的最新成果；全书共分十章三十二万多字，内容深入具体；书中对保皇会与华侨的关系、华侨对孙中山让位的态度等问题，提出了自己的新观点。它是研究孙中山与华侨关系及华侨与中国革命关系史的一部较有分量的著作。

Author: Thomas Tsu-wee Tan

Publisher: Times Books International

Publishing year: 1986

Call Number: DS732. T161

Description:This is a story of the overseas Chinese-of their struggles against discrimination in the early years, the growth of Chinatowns, and of the many associations like clans and hui-kuans that were formed, bringing together fellow Chinese who speak the same dialect, originate from the same district, and who have common surnames. In particular, this book examines the major overseas Chinese communities in the Nanyang, and countries further afield like America, Australia, New Zealand and Britain.