Chinese Overseas
Subtitle: Comparative Cultural Issues
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789622096615
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Malaysia; Asia, Southeastern; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; China; Anthropology - Cultural; Emigration & Immigration; Chinese; Southeast Asia
Description: "This book examines issues of cultural change and identity construction of Chinese overseas, as well as other important issues such as Chinese and non-Chinese relations, and cultural and economic performance. It offers a perspective of understanding Chinese oversease in nation-states and beyond, in a global context which the author describes as the Chinese ethnological field."--BOOK JACKET.