The encyclopedia of the Chinese overseas

unparalleled resource, providing an unprecedented view of one of the world's largest, oldest, and most varied cultures abroad.

• Foreword
• Guide to the Use of the Encyclopedia and Editorial Conventions
• List of Figures, Tables and Maps
• Introduction
• Definitions
• Part I Origins
• Overview China as ancestral homeland
• Cultural origins
• Regional Origins
• Speech areas
• The Concept of Qiaoxiang
• 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 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
• The Chinese family in the Straits Settlements
• Religion Overseas Chinese Organizations
• General Pre-World War II
• Post-World War II
• Chinese pan-European organizations
• Chinese Business Organizations
• Network organizations
• Conglomerates Chinese business networks: A hypothetical dialogue
• Part IV Relations Relations with China
• China's policies towards overseas Chinese
• The Chinese overseas cycle
• Three bearers of 'Western learning' Sun Yat-sen
• Nationalism among the overseas
• Chinese Zou Rong Hong Kong's role in the relationship between China and the overseas
• Chinese Overseas Chinese remittances Overseas
• Chinese investments in China
• Charoen Pokphand's investments in China
• Relations with non-Chinese Ethnicity
• Being Chinese in the modern world Business relations with non-Chinese
• Multi-layered identities: Overseas Chinese artists in the 20th century
• Cross-cultural cinema Contemporary eacute;migreacute; writers
• Part V Communities 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 Oceania
• 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