{"product_id":"coming-home-to-a-foreign-country-xiamen-and-returned-overseas-chinese-1843-1938-hardback-9781501756184","title":"Coming Home to a Foreign Country; Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 (Hardback) 9781501756184","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eComing Home to a Foreign Country\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eXiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSoon Keong Ong (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501756184\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 5 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 1 map, 1 chart, 4 graphs - 5 Halftones, black and white - 4 Graphs - 1 Charts - 1 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]his is an excellent historical account of the role of emigrants in the making of Xiamen and is presented in a readable and theoretically important volume.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Middle Ground Journal) \u003cp\u003eOng Soon Keong revisits these questions with a new twist[.]\u003c\/p\u003e (Pacific Affairs) \u003cp\u003eAlthough Coming Home to a Foreign Country does not engage in the urban qiaoxiang debate, Ong's work proves that it was possible – even worthwhile – to study the impact of migrants on the city, as well as the interactions between rural and urban China, through return migration. Ong's historiography also succeeds in chronicling the migrant cycle: The return of \"old hands\" perpetuated the cycle, and this ultimately re-made Xiamen the hub of Southern Fujianese migration.\u003c\/p\u003e (International Institute for Asian Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOng Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eComing Home to a Foreign Country\u003c\/i\u003e addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlacing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, \u003ci\u003eComing Home to a Foreign Country\u003c\/i\u003e explores the multilayered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia. Ong investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumulation and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their continual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese migrants, Ong argues, the idea of \"home\" was something consciously constructed. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOng complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Defining Xiamen: Trade and Migration before the Opium War (1839–1842)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Opening for Business: Xiamen as a Treaty Port\u003cbr\u003e 3. Facilitating Migration: Xiamen as a Migration Hub\u003cbr\u003e 4. Manipulating Identities: State and Opportunities in Xiamen\u003cbr\u003e 5. Transforming Xiamen: Urban Reconstruction in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 6. Making Home: Xiamen as Destination and Home\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell East Asia Series","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607805194520,"sku":"9781501756184","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/coming-home-to-a-foreign-country-xiamen-and-returned-overseas-chinese-1843-1938-hardback-9781501756184","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}