Don't leave home
Subtitle: migration and the Chinese
By: Wang Gungwu.
Publisher: Times Academic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Chinese -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century.; Chinese -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century.; China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.; China -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Other titles: Migration and the Chinese
Description: "More than 25 million Chinese left their homeland from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century to settle abroad together with their families and descendants." "Don't Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese describes this massive wave of migration and the smaller ones that occurred in the last three decades of the 20th century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.