Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, emeritus, at Harvard University.
In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began to collaborate with Chinese emigrants to develop a worldwide trading system. The author explores both internal and external migration, complementary parts of a far-reaching process of adaptation that enabled Chinese families to deal with their changing social environments. Skills and institutions developed in the course of internal migration were creatively modified to serve the needs of emigrants in foreign lands.
As emigrants, Chinese inevitably found themselves "among others." The various human ecologies in which they lived have faced Chinese settlers with a diversity of challenges and opportunities in the colonial and postcolonial states of Southeast Asia, in the settler societies of the Americas and Australasia, and in Europe. Kuhn traces their experiences worldwide alongside those of the "others" among whom they settled: the colonial elites, indigenous peoples, and rival immigrant groups that have profited from their Chinese minorities but also have envied, feared, and sometimes persecuted them. A rich selection of primary sources allows these protagonists a personal voice to express their hopes, sorrows, and worldviews.
The post-Mao era offers emigrants new opportunities to leverage their expatriate status to do business with a Chinese nation eager for their investments, donations, and technologies. The resulting "new migration," the author argues, is but the latest phase of a centuries-old process by which Chinese have sought livelihoods away from home.
中国对外开放力度的不断增强,跨国人员往来的数量、密切程度不断增多、加深的现实作用下,在历史学术上的影响最大的恐怕就是催热中国移民史的研究。就学术圈的参与度来看,本身仅是属于广东福建浙江等沿海侨乡密集的省份的专利(中山、厦大、暨大等),现在拓展到了全国...
評分 評分 評分 評分中国对外开放力度的不断增强,跨国人员往来的数量、密切程度不断增多、加深的现实作用下,在历史学术上的影响最大的恐怕就是催热中国移民史的研究。就学术圈的参与度来看,本身仅是属于广东福建浙江等沿海侨乡密集的省份的专利(中山、厦大、暨大等),现在拓展到了全国...
1,終於讀完瞭,何時寫個書評;2,周老師稱孔飛力為西方漢學理論化的頂峰,但太理論化瞭,中國史學界恐怕不喜;3,同學們多聽說過《叫魂》,但是聽自專業學者的介紹其實很少。
评分史料厚重嚴謹,講述瞭數百年來華僑篳路藍縷的血淚悲歡和在異鄉土地頑強生長的磊落成就,實在值得濃墨重彩彪炳史冊。 一直覺得海外華僑史是中國近代史乃至中華文化當今麵貌非常重要的一部分,然而主流渠道卻很少涉及。特彆是在如今全國移民的“新僑民時代”,故土與現居,根深和葉茂,何去何從,這樣的課題值得每個中國人思索。 PS 華僑特彆是南洋華僑真的偉大。
评分史料厚重嚴謹,講述瞭數百年來華僑篳路藍縷的血淚悲歡和在異鄉土地頑強生長的磊落成就,實在值得濃墨重彩彪炳史冊。 一直覺得海外華僑史是中國近代史乃至中華文化當今麵貌非常重要的一部分,然而主流渠道卻很少涉及。特彆是在如今全國移民的“新僑民時代”,故土與現居,根深和葉茂,何去何從,這樣的課題值得每個中國人思索。 PS 華僑特彆是南洋華僑真的偉大。
评分totally understated great book: even not the best of Kuhn's (probably will be), it ranks the number one monograph published during the past decade in the field of Chinese history. Everyone should read it.
评分totally understated great book: even not the best of Kuhn's (probably will be), it ranks the number one monograph published during the past decade in the field of Chinese history. Everyone should read it.
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