Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980
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- Synopsis
- 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 both helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' economic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520970540
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780520298439, 9780520298415
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 07/20/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Gregor Benton and Hong Liu
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.