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  • Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press  (3)
  • Asian Studies  (3)
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    Coming Home to a Foreign Country : Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501756207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.9/06910951245
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Asian Studies ; History ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Return migrants ; Return migrants ; Return migration History
    Abstract: Ong 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. Coming Home to a Foreign Country 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. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, Coming Home to a Foreign Country explores the multi-layered 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. Ong 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
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501756207
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756207
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    The Future Conditional : Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501754920
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 p.) , 8 b&w halftones, 2 maps
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 428.0071/051
    Keywords: English language Social aspects ; English language Study and teaching ; Chinese speakers ; English language Study and teaching ; Social aspects ; Group identity ; Anthropology ; Asian Studies ; Language Arts & Linguistics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Linguistic anthropology, ethnolinguistics, language learning in china, learning english in china
    Abstract: In The Future Conditional, a thorough examination of the widespread use of the English language in China, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, beyond its role in the education system, has for Chinese people. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why has English, he asks, become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has grown into a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501754920
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754920
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    Republicanism, Communism, Islam : Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501755637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 Seiten)
    DDC: 303.6/4095909041
    Keywords: Asian Studies ; Political Science & Political History ; Religious Studies ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Cosmopolitanism ; Revolutions
    Abstract: In Republicanism, Communism, Islam, John T. Sidel provides an alternate vantage point for understanding the variegated forms and trajectories of revolution across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam, a perspective that is de-nationalized, internationalized, and transnationalized. Sidel positions this vantage point in relation to the long-term framing of twentieth-century revolutions in much of modern Southeast Asian history, as, on the one hand, a nationalist template and, on the other, distinctive local cultures and forms of consciousness. Sidel's comparative analysis of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Vietnamese revolutions shows how each-in very different, decisive, and often surprising ways-were informed, enabled, and impelled by diverse cosmopolitan connections and international conjunctures. From the role of Freemasonry in the making of the Philippine revolution and the importance of Communism and Islam in the making of Indonesia to the influence that anticolonial movements in Africa and Jesuit teaching had on Vietnamese revolutionaries, Sidel tracks how these forces, rather than nationalist claims, shaped the forms of each revolution, the ways in which they unfolded, and the legacies which they left in their wakes
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501755637
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