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- Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Maps and Tables
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- 1. The Genealogy of Qiaopi Studies
- pp. 19-32
- 4. Qiaopi Geography
- pp. 82-94
- 6. Qiaopi, Qiaoxiang, and Charity
- pp. 130-150
- Conclusions
- pp. 176-184
- Appendix: Selected Qiaopi and Huipi Letters
- pp. 185-208
- References
- pp. 245-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520970540
Related ISBN(s)
9780520298415, 9780520298439
MARC Record
OCLC
1022986305
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-16
Language
English
Open Access
No