The Price and Promise of Specialness

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40070-2
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: Chinese Overseas

In The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People’s Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to ‘overseas Chinese affairs’ in New China’s first decade as a function of a larger political economy.

Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lim, Jin Li

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Chinese Terms

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction

1 The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy

2 Historiography

3 Structure and Scope

4 Sources

1 Rights and Interests

1 Introduction

2 New Democracy and the Huaqiao

3 To Do Some Good

4 Openness and Sincerity

5 Common Program

6 Conclusion

2 Screaming for Socialism

1 Introduction

2 Like Another Province Overseas

3 If Only 1%

4 All Huaqiao Have Money

5 Conclusion

3 No Complaints, No Escapes, No Shortfalls

1 Introduction

2 They Will Fervently Leap

3 Rather Left than Right

4 More Money, More Problems

5 Conclusion

4 Fourth-Class Socialism

1 Introduction

2 ‘Is the Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau Your Daddy?’

3 Special Circumstances

4 The Great Debate

5 Conclusion

5 Politics in Command

1 Introduction

2 A Great Leap Forward for Qiaowu

3 Keep Left

4 Conclusion

Conclusion

1 Political Economy

2 Contradiction

3 Paradox

4 Caveat Emptor

Appendices

Appendix I: Overseas Chinese Remittances to the People’s Republic of China, 1950–1960

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jin Li Lim, Ph.D. (2016), London School of Economics and Political Science, is a historian of modern China. He has published scholarly chapters and articles on China, as well as on other aspects of Singapore history, and fashion and cultural studies.