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Dear China
Gregor Benton
Hong Liu
其他書名
Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980
出版
Univ of California Press
, 2018-07-24
主題
History / Asia / China
ISBN
0520970543
9780520970540
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7ClbDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Qiaopi
is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.
Dear China
is the first book-length study in English of
qiaopi
and of the origins, structure, and operations of the
qiaopi
trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of
qiaopi
, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development.
Dear China
contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.