ISBN:
9789004400702
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 278 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Chinese overseas volume 13
Series Statement:
Chinese overseas
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Dissertation note:
Dissertation London School of Economics and Political Science 2016
DDC:
337.51009/045
Keywords:
Geschichte 1949-1959
;
Ausland
;
Chinesen
;
Politik
;
China
;
Chinese / Foreign countries / History / 20th century
;
Emigrant remittances / China / History / 20th century
;
Chinese diaspora / Economic aspects
;
China / Emigration and immigration / Economic aspects
;
China / Economic policy / 1949-1976
;
China / Politics and government / 1949-1976
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Hochschulschrift
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Glossar enthalten
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Glossar enthalten
;
China
;
Politik
;
Chinesen
;
Ausland
;
Geschichte 1949-1959
Abstract:
In The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People's Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to 'overseas Chinese affairs' in New China's first decade as a function of a larger political economy. Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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