TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
GUIDE TO THE USE OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AND EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS
LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES AND MAPS
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
China as ancenstral homeland
Cultural origins
REGIONAL ORIGINS
Speech areas
THE CONCEPT OF QIAOXIANG
Box Item: Guangdong qiaoxiang architecture
Emigrant communities in Fujian
Emigrant communities in Guangdong
Emigrant communities in Zhejiang
Emigrant communities in Hainan
Border regions
Part II MIGRATION
MIGRATION IN CHINA
Colonization and resettlement
Sojourning
'Floating populations'
EMIGRATION FROM CHINA
Contexts: 1100s-1910s
BETWEEN DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL
Contexts: Post-World War II
PATTERNS OF MIGRATION
Trade diasporas
Labour migration
Sojourning and chain migration
Student migration
Return migration and re-migration
Clandestine migration
Box Item: Recruitment of workers for Britain and France
The case of Hong Kong
Patterns of Chinese migration to Europe
Part III INSTITUTIONS
THE ORDER OF THINGS IN CHINA
Rural society
Urban society
THE OVERSEAS CHINESE FAMILY
Box Item: The Chinese family in the Straits Settlements
RELIGION
OVERSEAS CHINESE ORGANIZATIONS
General
Pre-World War II
Post-World War II
Box Item: Chinese pan-European organizations
CHINESE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
Network organizations
Conglomerates
Box Item: Chinese business networks:
A hypothetical dialogue
Part IV RELATIONS
RELATIONS WITH CHINA
China's policies toward overseas Chinese
Box Item: The Chinese overseas cycle
Box Item: Three bearers of 'Western learning'
Box Item: Sun Yat-sen
Nationalization among the overseas Chinese
Box Item: Zou Rong
Hong Kong's role in the relationship between
China and the overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese remittances
Overseas Chinese investments in China
Box Item: Charoen Pokphand's investments in China
RELATIONS WITH NON-CHINESE
Ethnicity
Being Chinese in the modern world
Business relations with non-Chinese
Box Item: Multi-layered identities:
Overseas Chinese artists in the 20th century
Box Item: Cross-cultural cinema
Box Item: Contemporary émigré writers
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
The Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
THE AMERICAS
Canada
The Caribbean
Spanish America
The United States
AUSTRALASIA AND OCEANA
Australia
New Zealand
The South Pacific
Fiji
Nauru
New Caledonia
Papua New Guinea
The Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Tonga
Vanuatu
Western Samoa
EUROPE
Britain
France
Italy
The Netherlands
Russia
EAST ASIA
Japan
Korea
INDIAN OCEAN AND AFRICA
India
Madagascar
Mauritius
Reunion Island
South Africa
TIMELINES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHINESE CHARACTER LIST
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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