Seeing Transnationally: How Chinese Migrants Make Their Dreams Come True

by Li Minghuan and Robert Shearman

Between the early nineteenth century and the 1930s, more than ten million Chinese workers were shipped abroad to the European outposts and colonies of the tropical world. This great wave of Chinese mobility drew to a halt in the early 1950s after the midcentury years of war and revolution. However, since 1978, when China's reform policy lifted the ban on migration, Chinese subjects from the People's Republic have been on the move again. This time,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9058679012
• ISBN13: 9789058679017
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"