LEADER 03744nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910782285603321 005 20230207225724.0 010 $a1-281-93591-3 010 $a9786611935917 010 $a981-279-556-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537862 035 $a(EBL)1681270 035 $a(OCoLC)815752577 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000121530 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135006 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121530 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10093426 035 $a(PQKB)11688252 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681270 035 $a(WSP)00005000 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10255410 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL193591 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537862 100 $a20021211d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aChinese migrants abroad$b[electronic resource] $ecultural, educational, and social dimensions of the Chinese diaspora /$feditors Michael W. Charney, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Tong Chee Kiong 210 $aSingapore $cSingapore University Press ;$aRiver Edge, N.J. $cWorld Scientific$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-238-041-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-277). 327 $aContents; List of Figures; List of Tables: List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Chinese Abroad; Part One. Chineseness and ""Overseas"" Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community 327 $a1 Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences 2 Providers Protectors Guardians: Migration and Reconstruction of Masculinities; 3 Tasting the Night: Food Ethnic Transaction and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia 327 $a4 Multiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong Part Two. Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education 327 $a5 Chinese Education and Changing National and 85 Cultural Identity among Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chuka Dobun Gakko [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe 327 $a6 Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools 7 Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese Education in British Malaya 1904-1941; 8 The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education 327 $aPart Three. Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society 330 $aFast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960's until the mid-1990's brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's Republic of China, the election of a non-KMT government in Taiwan, the Asian economic crisis and the plight of overseas Chinese in Indonesia as a result, and the durability of the Singapore economy during this same crisis, have helped to sustain this attention. The study of the overseas Chinese has 606 $aChinese$zForeign countries$xSocial conditions 606 $aChinese$xLegal status, laws, etc 615 0$aChinese$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aChinese$xLegal status, laws, etc. 676 $a304.80951 701 $aCharney$b Michael W$01517186 701 $aYeoh$b Brenda S. A$0144661 701 $aTong$b Chee Kiong$01473222 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782285603321 996 $aChinese migrants abroad$93831387 997 $aUNINA