Chinese Among Others

出版者:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

作者:Philip A. Kuhn

页数:452

出版时间:2008-3-27

价格:USD 53.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780742510708

具体描述

In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began to collaborate with Chinese emigrants to develop a worldwide trading system. The author explores both internal and external migration, complementary parts of a far-reaching process of adaptation that enabled Chinese families to deal with their changing social environments. Skills and institutions developed in the course of internal migration were creatively modified to serve the needs of emigrants in foreign lands.

As emigrants, Chinese inevitably found themselves "among others." The various human ecologies in which they lived have faced Chinese settlers with a diversity of challenges and opportunities in the colonial and postcolonial states of Southeast Asia, in the settler societies of the Americas and Australasia, and in Europe. Kuhn traces their experiences worldwide alongside those of the "others" among whom they settled: the colonial elites, indigenous peoples, and rival immigrant groups that have profited from their Chinese minorities but also have envied, feared, and sometimes persecuted them. A rich selection of primary sources allows these protagonists a personal voice to express their hopes, sorrows, and worldviews.

The post-Mao era offers emigrants new opportunities to leverage their expatriate status to do business with a Chinese nation eager for their investments, donations, and technologies. The resulting "new migration," the author argues, is but the latest phase of a centuries-old process by which Chinese have sought livelihoods away from home.

作者简介

Philip A. Kuhn is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, emeritus, at Harvard University.

目录信息

Introduction
Chapter 1: Maritime Expansion and Chinese Migration
Chapter 2: Early Colonial Empires and Chinese Migrant Communities
Chapter 3: Imperialism and Mass Emigration
Chapter 4: Communities in the Age of Mass Migration: I. Southeast Asia
Chapter 5: Communities in the Age of Mass Migration: II. Exclusion from, and in, the Settler Societies
Chapter 6: Revolution and "National Salvation"
Chapter 7: Chinese Communities in Postcolonial Southeast Asia
Chapter 8: The New Migration
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读后感

（刊于《晶报》2016年11月19日，发表时有改动） 文/俞耕耘 孔飞力先生是在国际史学界享有盛名的大学者，其代表作《中华帝国晚期的叛乱及其敌人》、《叫魂》都已成为清史、中国近代史研究的经典范式。这也形成了一种风格化的书写策略：从具体的时间拐点、历史事件入手，以社会...  

孔飞力为何转向海外华人研究？ 王鸿 总有一些事情，知道了开头，却猜不中结局。谁也不会想到写就了《帝制晚期中国叛乱及其敌人》、《叫魂：1786年中国妖术大恐慌》等名著的美国中国学名家孔飞力（Philip A. Kuhn），会将自己的最后一本著作投向以海外华人为主题的研究 。乍看...  

孔飞力为何转向海外华人研究？ 王鸿 总有一些事情，知道了开头，却猜不中结局。谁也不会想到写就了《帝制晚期中国叛乱及其敌人》、《叫魂：1786年中国妖术大恐慌》等名著的美国中国学名家孔飞力（Philip A. Kuhn），会将自己的最后一本著作投向以海外华人为主题的研究 。乍看...  

用户评价

算是给学术生涯打上了一个不算完满的结

我们活得大概我们自己都想笑

tedious

不由想起陈春声教授感慨自己读了侨批多年，却总想不出合适的角度和方法写出一些文章。海外华人研究到目前为止都没有像样的理论或者方法出现，孔飞力算是个尝试，却也不怎么成功。或许是地方，群体，职业都差异太大，无法一概论之。

BA需要看了最后一章 有点启发意义