CHINESE OVERSEAS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Today over eighty percent of Chinese Overseas outside of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan live in Southeast Asia. The majority came from Guangdong and Fujian Provinces in Southern China. Southeast Asian Chinese have been making remarkable contributions culturally, economically, historically, politically and socially in their countries of adoption. The selected works highlight the various perspectives of Chinese Overseas study in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary areas by distinguished scholars in the field from the past to the present.

Edgar Wickberg
THE CHINESE IN THE PHILIPPINE LIFE 1850-1898

This landmark study by UC Berkeley alumnus Dr. Edgar Wickberg represents one of the first major studies of the ethnic Chinese community in the Philippines, utilizing heretofore unavailable materials from the Philippine National Archives in Manila.

Main Stack DS666 C5 W5 2000


Leo Suryadinata, editor
ETHNIC CHINESE AS SOUTHEAST ASIANS

Incorporating pieces from several of the leading scholars on the topic, including Wang Gungwu, Tan Chee Beng, and Teresita Ang See, this volume aims to be a major regional study of the issue of Chinese identity in Southeast Asia.

S/SE Asia DS509.5 C5 E85 1997

 

Elizabeth Sinn, editor
THE LAST HALF CENTURY OF CHINESE OVERSEAS

This volume anthologizes 25 papers presented at the 1994 conference "The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas: Comparative Perspectives," hosted by the University of Hong Kong. This conference's emphasis on comparative perspectives resulted in the utilization of a number of novel conceptual and methodological approaches of Chinese Overseas study.

Main Stack DS732 L37 1998


Wolfgang Franke
SINO-MALAYSIANA: SELECTED PAPERS ON MING & QING HISTORY AND ON THE OVERSEAS CHINESE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1942-1988

This volume is a collection of forty seminal, but hard-to-find articles on various topics concerning China and Southeast Asia, published in various academic journals and other collective works between 1942 and 1988.

Main Stack DS753 F72 1989


Anthony Reid, editor
SOJOURNERS AND SETTLERS: HISTORIES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THE CHINESE

This collection of essays attempts to address the broader range of historical Chinese interactions with Southeast Asian societies: cultural, economic, religious, and political. A virtual "who's who" of distinguished scholars of Southeast Asia explores the history of Chinese communities throughout mainland and insular Southeast Asia.

Main Stack DS523.4 C45 S64 2001

   
  
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