Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community

by Anne-Christine Tremon

Book Overview

Diaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansion--a Shenzhen former emigrant community--and its members' changing relationship with their diaspora around the world. For more than a century, inhabitants of Shenzhen's villages have migrated to Southeast Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. With China's economic global ascendancy, these villages no longer consist of peasants dependent on their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150176795X
• ISBN13: 9781501767951
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher