ISBN:
9780674975200
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 332 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 106
DDC:
305.9/06910951270903
Keywords:
Binnenwanderung
;
China
Abstract:
"Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in what would become a global diaspora"--
Abstract:
I. Imperial intermediaries: Officials: agents of empire in the upriver frontier, 1570-1740 -- Students: migration and civil examinations, 1570-1760 -- Merchants: commercial networks and state support, 1700-1850 -- II. Diasporic families: Husbands and wives in the West River basin -- Upriver settlers and delta lineages
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 297-326