Chinese migrations
Subtitle: the movement of people, goods, and ideas over four millennia
By: Diana Lary
Series: Critical issues in history
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780742567634; 9780742567641; 9780742567658
Subjects: Internal Migration; Chinese; Migrations; Population geography; Internal migrants; Emigration and immigration; Chinese diaspora; History
Description: This book looks at major forms of population movement throughout China's history, such as southward and westward movements, migration to the borders, and punishment migration. It examines some of the major themes associated with migration in China--the official discouragement of migration, exile, extremism, gender and migration, family and migration. It looks at the structures of migration, at the means to move, at migrant recruitment, and at remittances; and it looks at China's qualified attitude toward emigration, such as the decisions in the Ming dynasty to turn away from maritime expansion, onto the more recent acceptance and encouragement of the spread of ethnic Chinese around the world. The book also goes beyond the migrants themselves to discover what they carried with them from one place to another, within China and beyond: religions and ideologies, trade goods and crops, disease, and technology transfers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prehistory to Unification; title: The Qin/Han era; title: The Tang dynasty; title: The Song dynasty; title: The Yuan dynasty; title: The Ming dynasty; title: The high Qing dynasty; title: The late Qing dynasty; title: The first decades of the Republic; title: The war years; title: The early PRC, 1949-1965; title: The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976; title: The PRC reform era, 1978 to the present; title: Global China; title: Special categories of migrant.