Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1120 g
Reihe: China Perspectives
A New Chinese Migrant Community
Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1120 g
Reihe: China Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-03-265957-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Validating Marshall Sahlins’s statement that migrants can “organise the irresistible forces of the world system according to their own system of the world,” the book seeks to explain the following aspects: first, how Chinese migrants from Fuzhou built a self-governing community and provided public goods for its members. Second, how they adapted their pre-modern social relations to a market environment, creating interwoven economic networks in an ethnic economy and reshaping local culture-based economies into a distinctive form of capitalism. Third, how they transformed their religious world, adapting Chinese Buddhism and folk religion as a focus for their society and economy. Fourth, the characteristics of the migrants’ cultural identity, examining the continuities in their identity and how it has changed over time.
Students and scholars in anthropology, Chinese studies and cultural studies will find this book essential reading.
Zielgruppe
General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
Weitere Infos & Material
1. The Transnational Community of Fuzhounese 2. Fuzhounese Networking Society and the Entrepreneurial Spirit 3. Cosmopolitanism of the Beliefs of Migrants 4. “Old Overseas Chinese” and “New Overseas Chinese”: the issue of identity