The fifteen essays collected in this volume--which move from the T'ang and Sung dynasties to the present day--represent some of the author's efforts to learn about China from afar, as someone of Chinese heritage born and raised outside the country. Using the history and cultural attitudes, the author also shows the changing perspectives of how the Chinese view their present and their past during the past three decades.

The Chineseness of China: Selected Essays

WANG, GUNGWU

Oxford University Press

China and the World Since 1949: The Impact of Independence, Modernity, and Revolution

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

China and the world since 1949: The impact of independence, modernity and revolution (The Making of the 20th century)

History

Asia

Macmillan

This is the first history of post-1949 
China which brings into juxtaposition 
the themes of independence, modernity 
and revolution.

New China's international relations are 
governed by its determination to achieve both the fullest possible degree of independence and also the highest 
level of modernization ít can afford, in 
ways that will not come into conflict 
with its Maoist version of a global 
Marxist-Leninist revolution.

The author examines major changes 
in China since 1949 and up to the death 
of Mao Tse-tung in 1976, paying special 
attention to three central themes: the 
desire to assert independence; the 
problems of modernity; and the determination to make revolution. These 
themes are crucial to understanding 
China's role in the world in the latter 
half of the twentieth century.

Analysis of the main issues is made 
within the framework of a concise 
historical survey which explains them 
with the basic data available. The author 
examines the conditions that determine
the nature and quality of change in 
China, thL- conflicts between ideas and 
actions that have propelled the country 
to rapid change, and the indigenous 
traditional as well as the externally 
determined factors that have inhibited 
the speed and range of change.

Concluding that China is now fully 
involved in the world, and is committed 
to the long and complex effort of helping to shape a world that it can easily live with, the author believes that there is nothing mysterious about the Chinese revolution and that, indeed, 
its driving spirit is wholly rational.

Humans have been on the move for millennia. They have done so slowly as well as quickly, sometimes involuntarily, sometimes transported by force, often relocated at great cost in lives, but they have always moved. Over the centuries, improved transportation has eased the movement, even in the face of man-made or natural obstacles. But in modern tim

Global History And Migrations

Americas

Routledge

Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980

Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.

Business & Money

Benton, Gregor

刘洪

Finance

University of California Press

The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and settling overseas, the "earthbound" Chinese--first traders, then peasants and workers--eventually found new sources of livelihood abroad. The practice of sojourning, being always temporarily away from home, was the answer the Chinese overseas found to deal with imperial and orthodox concerns. Today their challenge is to find an alternative to either returning or assimilating by seeking a new kind of autonomy in a world that will come to acknowledge the ideal of multicultural states. 
 In pursuing this story, international scholar Wang Gungwu uncovers some major themes of global history: the coming together of Asian and European civilizations, the ambiguities of ethnicity and diasporic consciousness, and the tension between maintaining one's culture and assimilation.

The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

Harvard University Press

The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and settling overseas, the "earthbound" Chinese--first traders, then peasants and workers--eventually found new sources of livelihood abroad. The practice of sojourning, being always temporarily away from home, was the answer the Chinese overseas found to deal with imperial and orthodox concerns. Today their challenge is to find an alternative to either returning or assimilating by seeking a new kind of autonomy in a world that will come to acknowledge the ideal of multicultural states.
In pursuing this story, international scholar Wang Gungwu uncovers some major themes of global history: the coming together of Asian and European civilizations, the ambiguities of ethnicity and diasporic consciousness, and the tension between maintaining one's culture and assimilation.

Humans have been on the move for millennia. They have done so slowly as well as quickly, sometimes involuntarily, sometimes transported by force, often relocated at great cost in lives, but they have always moved. Over the centuries, improved transportation has eased the movement, even in the face of man-made or natural obstacles. But in modern times, migration has accelerated and its reach has become truly global.Whether it is Turkish gastarbeiter in Germany, Japanese Nisei in Seattle, Filipinos in Kuwait, or Haitians in Brooklyn, the costs and benefits of human mobility on such a wide and rapid scale are hotly debated. Global History and Migrations, the second volume of the Global History Series, explores the historical background of this issue by focusing on recent history, a time when human movements have been at their most dynamic. This book provides a rich, cross-cultural foundation for a more enlightened understanding of migration and its role in the unfolding shape of global history.

Global History And Migrations (Global History Series)

World

Westview Press

Mineral Econ Asia/h (Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia/South and Southeast Asia)

Economics

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The Chineseness of China: Selected Essays

China and the World Since 1949: The Impact of Independence, Modernity, and Revolution

China and the world since 1949: The impact of independence, modernity and revolution (The Making of the 20th century)

China and the world since 1949: The impact of independence, modernity and revolution (The Making of the 20th century)

Global History And Migrations

Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980

The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

Global History And Migrations (Global History Series)

Mineral Econ Asia/h (Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia/South and Southeast Asia)