Chinese overseas [[electronic resource] ] : comparative cultural issues / / Tan Chee-Beng

• Autore: Tan Chee-Beng
• Pubblicazione: Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8951
• Soggetto topico: Chinese - Southeast Asia; Chinese - Malaysia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements; Note on Transcription; Introduction; 1 Chinese Ethnological Field:Anthropological Studies of ChineseCommunities Worldwide; 2 Acculturation, Ethnicity and Ethnic Chinese; 3 Chinese Migration, Localization and the Production of Baba Culture; 4 Chinese Identities in Malaysia; 5 Ethnic Chinese: Language, Nationality and Identity; 6 Ethnic Chinese and Ethnic Relations: Some Economic Explanations; 7 Culture and Economic Performance with Special Reference to the Chinese in Southeast Asia; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines issues of cultural change and identity construction of Chinese overseas, as well as other important issues such as Chinese and non-Chinese relations, and cultural and economic performance. It offers a perspective of understanding Chinese overseas in nation-states and beyond, in a global context which the author describes as the Chinese ethnological field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese overseas
• ISBN: 1-282-70574-1; 9786612705748; 988-220-071-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791333803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II