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.

作者：王賡武

出版社：中央研究院歷史語言研究所

出版年份：2007

索书号：DS732.W246x

简介：作者研究中國歷史，從頭開始即是從外面看。作者特別注意到一點，即「文化」與「國家」兩個詞的用法。試圖解答有關中華文化在這些國外的華人社會之間，如何能不斷的維持再建立起來？有什麼特別的作用？或有怎樣的影響？以至於中國和東南亞的關係、以及西方國家和其他國家對中國的看法、怎樣去瞭解文化和當地政治、當地新興國家的關係？這不僅華人感興趣、當地政府感興趣，其他外國關心中國和東南亞關係的人也注意到。如何面對你認同一個國家，但要保留你自己的文化，這將來怎麼演變？又會演變成什麼？

Author: Mette Thunø

Publisher: NIAS Press

Publishing Year: 2007

Call Number: DS732.B573

Description: Chinese migration has changed fundamentally in recent years. It no longer has the exceptional and ambivalent nature of earlier times when virtual slaves dreamed of returning home to China as rich men but instead settled in Chinatowns across the globe. An important factor is that China has changed, transformed by decades of economic liberalization and rapid economic growth. As such, most migrants – both women and men – now leave China for a more promising future and often find ways to bring their families with them. Chinese migration may be distinct but it is no longer exceptional.

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.