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Title

• Chinese migrants write home : a dual-language anthology of twentieth-century family letters / edited by Gregor Benton, Huimei Zhang, Hong Liu = 家书抵万金 : 二十世纪华人移民书信选注 / 班国瑞, 张慧梅, 刘宏.
• Chinese migrants write home : a dual-language anthology of twentieth-century family letters / edited by Gregor Benton, Huimei Zhang, Hong Liu = Jia shu di wan jin : er shí shi jì hua ren yi mín shu xìn xuan zhu / Ban Guoruì, Zhang Huimei, Liu Hong.

Publication

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, 2020.

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Additional Authors

• 班国瑞
• Benton, Gregor
• 张慧梅
• Zhang, Huimei
• 刘宏, 1962-
• Liu, Hong, 1962-

Description

x, 334 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Qiaopi had numerous functions and dimensions, ranging from economic and social to cultural and political. In June 2013, the Qiaopi Project was officially registered under UNESCO's "Memory of the World" programme, set up in 1992 because of "a growing awareness of the parlous state of preservation of documentary heritage" in the world. This book presents around one hundred letters from Singapore, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the USA, and Canada, including photographic reproductions of the original letters, transcriptions in Chinese characters, and English translations, where necessary with explanatory notes. Most of the letters collected in Chinese and non-Chinese archives, and in this sourcebook, were products of the Qiaopi system as traditionally defined. A few, especially some to and from North America, especially in the second half of the twentieth century, went through the Post Office, and were not handled by Chinese remittance companies. Not all the letters accompanied remittances"--

Alternative Title

• 家书抵万金 : 二十世纪华人移民书信选注
• Jia shu di wan jin : er shí shi jì hua ren yi mín shu xìn xuan zhu

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Chinese > Foreign countries > History > 19th century > Correspondence
• Chinese > Foreign countries > History > 20th century > Correspondence
• Foreign workers, Chinese > History > 19th century > Correspondence
• Foreign workers, Chinese > History > 20th century > Correspondence
• Emigrant remittances > China > History > 19th century
• Emigrant remittances > China > History > 20th century
• Chinese > Migrations > History > 19th century > Correspondence
• Chinese > Migrations > History > 20th century > Correspondence
• Chinese > Foreign countries
• Chinese > Migrations
• Emigrant remittances
• Foreign workers, Chinese
• China

Genre/Form

• History.
• Personal correspondence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Reasons for emigrating -- Immigration procedures -- Emigrants' life overseas -- Migrant dependants' lives in China -- Distribution of remittances -- Household matters -- Economic issues and politics -- Education -- Society -- Family values, new ideas, and advice to family members

Call Number

JFE 20-3714

ISBN

• 9789813274921
• 9813274921

LCCN

2018055907

OCLC

1086495639

Title

Chinese migrants write home : a dual-language anthology of twentieth-century family letters / edited by Gregor Benton, Huimei Zhang, Hong Liu = Jia shu di wan jin : er shí shi jì hua ren yi mín shu xìn xuan zhu / Ban Guoruì, Zhang Huimei, Liu Hong.

Alternate Script for Title

Chinese migrants write home : a dual-language anthology of twentieth-century family letters / edited by Gregor Benton, Huimei Zhang, Hong Liu = 家书抵万金 : 二十世纪华人移民书信选注 / 班国瑞, 张慧梅, 刘宏.

Publisher

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Benton, Gregor, editor.

Alternate Script for Added Author

班国瑞, editor.

Added Author

Zhang, Huimei, editor.

Alternate Script for Added Author

张慧梅, editor.

Added Author

Liu, Hong, 1962- editor.

Alternate Script for Added Author

刘宏, 1962- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3714