Chinese Migrants Abroad : Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
by Charney, Michael W.; Kiong, Tong Chee; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.Downloadable: Lifetime Access
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Table of Contents
List of Figures | |
List of Tables | |
List of Contributors | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction: The Chinese Abroad | |
Chineseness and "Overseas" Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community | |
Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences | p. 3 |
Providers, Protectors, Guardians: Migration and Reconstruction of Masculinities | p. 23 |
Tasting the Night: Food, Ethnic Transaction, and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia | p. 41 |
Multiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong | p. 63 |
Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education | |
Chinese Education and Changing National and Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chuka Dobun Gakko [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe | p. 85 |
Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools | p. 101 |
Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modem Chinese Education in British Malaya | p. 114 |
The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education | p. 145 |
Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society | |
Language, Education, and Occupational Attainment of Foreign-Trained Chinese and Polish Professional Immigrants in Toronto, Canada | p. 163 |
Career and Family Factors in Intention for Permanent Settlement in Australia | p. 181 |
No Longer Migrants: Southern New Zealand Chinese in the Twentieth Century | p. 204 |
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Reflections on the Cultural Implications of Modern Education | p. 229 |
Bibliography | p. 253 |
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