Search Results for sojourn

... examples of the “sojourn work” that has gone into making mobile, multiethnic populations abroad into Overseas Chinese. The first example deals with recent official attempts to project the People's Republic of China's multiethnic vision of Chinese-ness beyond its national borders. The second highlights...

...Steven I. Levine America's China Sojourn: America's Foreign Policy and Its Effects on Sino-American Relations, 1942–1948 . By William P. Head . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1983 . xii, 353 pp. Bibliography, Index. $14.25 (paper). Patterns in the Dust: Chinese-American...

... north of the walled old Chinese city. The book therefore is also relevant to women's and gender studies. The courtesan houses and the culture surrounding these commercial establishments offered Shanghai's male sojourners—the clientele consisted mostly of merchants and literati—a place they might call...

...Eugenio Menegon Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China . By Florence Hsia . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . xv, 273. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Florence Hsia's...

...Hong Liu Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese . Edited by Anthony Reid . St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with Allen and Unwin , 1996 . Distributed by Paul and Company, xxx, 232 pp. $24.95 (paper). Copyright...

... the idea of the temporary Chinese sojourner as an orientalist construction (A. Chan 1981). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 List of References Adams Romanzo . 1937 . Interracial Marriage in Hawaii . New York : Macmillan . Appadurai Arjun . 1996...

..., the study of Xinjiang began a long sojourn in the Western academic wilderness. After all, the earlier interest had always been tinged with Orientalist travel fantasy and imperial desires that required scholarly boots on the ground. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018...

... reevaluates the Chinese migrant experience itself. Wang explores the concept of sojourning as a pattern of migration and in the context of national discourses of migration and historiographies. In "Sojourning: The Chinese Experience," Wang first defines sojourning as "extended periods of stay practiced...

...," the subject of migration, Wang argues, naturally lends itself to global history's mission to study linkages between many people over time and space (p. 1). Another central theme of the collection reevaluates the Chinese migrant experience itself. Wang explores the concept of sojourning as a pattern...

... the Brazilian average. As a result, they do not migrate out of economic desperation but are generally "opportunity migrants," who intend to earn money during a short sojourn abroad in order improve their socioeconomic status at home. Indeed, almost all of the Japanese-Brazilians migrate with a strictly...

.... A more expansive introduction elucidating common themes and analyzing the contributors’ varying methodologies and contributions would have provided greater coherence. Some essays overplay the distinction between Huizhou sojourners and Yangzhou natives. While the perception of Huizhou men as outsiders...

... and circulatory histories that have historically underpinned the modern world and the modern nation. Amrith also seeks to distinguish Asian migrations from European (or African) ones. In the first place, historically Asian migrations have been circular and sojourning; as such, these communities retain...

... grocery business, and prospered. By the 1940's, no longer sojourners, they had begun to make their way over to classification with the whites. Dr. Loewen's excellent study is a product of Mississippi State and Harvard, aid from Tougaloo, funding from NIMH and Harvard, the use of court, tax, school board...

... then points out that, given the different environment and opportunity in Southeast Asia, wealth seems to have become an end in itself, as well as the primary goal among all emigrant Chinese to be sojourners making as much money in as short a time as possible. Wealth quickly turned into prestige and influence...

... their hopes for a swift return home. Most significantly, these memories bound the mainlanders to the KMT regime—Yang effectively argues that this “unholy alliance” (p. 102) had to be forged—in a shared condition of sojourning that separated them from the mass of Taiwan's population. When these reluctant...

...-weng iiber das Theater, 1966). With a postdoctoral grant he continued his education at the National Taiwan University in Taipei where he edited, among other books, the complete works of Li Yu {Li Yu quanji, 1970, 15 vols Following a subsequent research sojourn in Kyoto, his growing interest...

... that is usually assumed to have hurt Amoy did not affect the substantial nonWestern foreign trade through that port. Ships continued to arrive in Amoy from Sulu, Luzon, and elsewhere, while sojourning Fukienese merchants also played important roles in both Canton and Ningpo. "The commercial position...

... Lama's Sojourn in Mongolia,” by Ishihama, examines how the Dalai Lama's presence in Mongolia contributed to a national consciousness among the various Mongolian peoples. Wada Daichi's “The Modern and Traditional Diplomacy of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama during His Sojourn in Khalkha and Qinghai (1904–1907...

... years from 1937 to 1945? The essays that follow address these questions while examining particular manifestations of commercial culture along Nanjing Road. Wellington K. K. Chan provides a history of four major department stores, tracing their origin to the Australian and Hong Kong sojourns...

... repeats the charge (p. 5; p. 23). He also seem to accept without question that Chinese lived in substandard fashion by choice, sent almost all their earnings back to China and thereby bled the American economy, and considered themselves "sojourners" without any desire to settle or make a contribution...