Böcker i Chinese Worlds-serien

Documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice and discrimination they have experienced. This book uses case studies of Chinese communities in Canada and explores the different defence mechanisms Chinese migrants have created to escape the systemic and institutionalized discrimination they face.

This text places modern Chinese literature within its socio-historical context. Focusing on people as well as on texts, and looking at what writers did as well as at what they wrote, the studies here draw a picture of Chinese literary life throughout the modern period.

This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history.

This is a study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the party's relations to the city's students and teachers, women, entrepreneurs, secret societies and its workers.

Based mainly on Russian archival sources which have previously been unobtainable, this text analyzes the Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese revolution and their reception in China. Issues include the role of the three Bolshevik leaders, Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky.

This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China. A valuable resource for students of contemporary Chinese society and for an understanding of Chinese labour reform.

An examination of how Chinese family and business networks have been closely interlocked with economic and social structures, around which government and states developed.

This book interrogates the Confucian capitalism thesis which dominates the approach to Chinese business behaviour in management and social sciences.

Based on in-depth interviews with overseas Chinese in many European cities, Chinatown, Europe provides a complex yet enthralling investigation into many Chinese communities in Europe.

Provides an overview of the Chinese in Russia and Eastern Europe. This book is intended for students and scholars of Chinese studies, international migration, diaspora and transnationalism.

Explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. This book examines various models of newly-forged communities with the added dimension of personal identity and the individuals place in society. It brings a human analysis of migration, culture, and identity.

This study reveals how birth control in China is shaped by political, economic and social interests, bureaucratic structures and financial concerns.

Wang attempts to close a gap in contemporary research by relating cosmopolitanism to migration, particularly in the Asian context. With a cosmopolitan gaze towards migration studies, she makes four key contributions to the ongoing scholarly discussion on how Chinese migrants integrate into and affect their host nation.

Analyzing the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due to globalization, this book provides an understanding of Chinese participation in the key receiving countries of the US, Australia and Canada. It focuses on the main themes of economic globalization and Chinese community development, transnational linkages, and more.

An analysis of the financing of China's rural enterprises over the past two decades. Dicusses key aspects of rural enterprise development in China, including the role of state policy, rural financial institutions and local government.

By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions between foreigners and the people of China which go far beyond one-way transmission or exploitation. This edited volume adopts a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach to the study of foreigners in China, and utilises the perspectives of historiography, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science.

There is a dearth of empirical research on Chinese business in Malaysia's mode of development and styles of operation. This study, which covers the period from colonial times to the present day, fills the gap by identifying key issues pertaining to Chinese business operations in Malaysia. In the CHINESE WORLDS series.

Through a collection and juxtaposition of various case studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration and evaluation of Chinese entrepreneurship in contemporary Asian contexts.