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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452696603321

Titolo

Wind over water [[electronic resource] ] : migration in an east Asian context / / edited by David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka and Shinji Yamashita

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-283-86651-X

0-85745-741-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Foundations in Asia Pacific studies ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

HainesDavid W

YamanakaKeiko

YamashitaShinji

Disciplina

305.80095

Soggetti

Ethnology - East Asia

Electronic books.

East Asia Emigration and immigration

East Asia Ethnic relations

East Asia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities; Chapter 1 - Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam; Chapter 2 - Wind through the Woods; Chapter 3 - Migrant Social Networks; Chapter 4 - Migration and DiverseCity; Chapter 5 - A Transnational Community and Its Impact on Local Power Relations in Urban China; Chapter 6 - Immigration, Policies, and Civil Society in Hamamatsu, Central Japan; Part II: Family, Gender, Lifestyle, and Culture; Chapter 7 - Multiple Narratives on Migration in Vietnam and Their Methodologicval Implications

Chapter 8 - Cross-Border Marriages between Vietnamese Women and Chinese MenChapter 9 - Achieving and Restoring Masculinity through Homeland Return Visits; Chapter 10 - Mothers on the Move; Chapter 11 - Here, There, and In-between; Chapter 12 - Moving and Touring in Time and Place; Part III: Work, Ethnicity, and Nationality; Chapter 13 - In the Shadows and at the Margins:; Chapter 14 - African Traders in



Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong; Chapter 15 - Negotiating "Home" and "Away"; Chapter 16 - "Guarded Globalization"; Conclusion; About the Contributors; 19-Index_HAINES-P263-270

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneu

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Record Nr.

UNISA996396249803316

Autore

Dafforne Richard

Titolo

The merchants mirrour. Or, directions for the perfect ordering and keeping of his accounts [[electronic resource] ] : Framed by way of debitor and creditor, after the (so termed) Italian manner: containing 250 rare questions, with their answers, in forme of a dialogue. As likewise a vvaste-book, with a complete journal and leager thereunto appertaining; unto the which I have annexed two other waste-books for exercise of the studious: and at the end of each is entred the brief contents of the leagers accounts, arising from thence. And also a moneth-book, very requisite for merchants, and commodious for all other science-lovers of this famous art. The third edition, corrected and amended. Compiled by Richard Dafforne of Northampton, accountant, and teacher of the same, after an exquisite method, in the English and Dutch language. The contents are immediately prefixed before the book

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by R.H. and J.G. for Nicholas Bourn, at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1660

Descrizione fisica

[20], 55, [13], 19, [13] p., 13 leaves, [188] p

Soggetti

Bookkeeping

Accounting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contains numerous tables.

Signatures: A-2P⁴ 2Q² .

Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books 1641-1700 reel 2494 bound and filmed preceeding Wing C5374.

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

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