Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 254
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7425-6763-4 • Hardback • June 2012 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
978-0-7425-6764-1 • Paperback • June 2012 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
978-0-7425-6765-8 • eBook • June 2012 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Diana Lary is professor emerita of history at the University of British Columbia.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prehistory to Unification
Chapter 2: The Qin/Han Era
Chapter 3: The Tang Dynasty
Chapter 4: The Song Dynasty
Chapter 5: The Yuan Dynasty
Chapter 6: The Ming Dynasty
Chapter 7: The High Qing Dynasty
Chapter 8: The Late Qing Dynasty
Chapter 9: The First Decades of the Republic
Chapter 10: The War Years
Chapter 11: The Early PRC
Chapter 12: The Cultural Revolution
Chapter 13: The PRC Reform Era
Chapter 14: Global China
Chapter 15: Special Categories of Migrant
Chapter 16: Conclusion
Glossary
This is a brilliant, enchanting, and innovative book. Most important is the way that Diana Lary uses migration as a thread to review the history of China. The method turns out to be fitting and appropriate, and the result is uniquely illuminating.
— Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania
By offering a panoramic view of migration through four millennia, this extraordinary book remaps the history of China and redefines the scope and meaning of 'Chinese migration.' Truly ground-breaking.
— Elizabeth Sinn, University of Hong Kong
Diana Lary has situated the epics of twentieth-century Chinese migrations on the broad canvas, and with the deepened perspective, of over four millennia of the Chinese past. Drawing on economic, social, cultural, legal, and gendered history, she shows how Chinese migrations may relate to universal themes, even as Chinese experiences often have differed from patterns elsewhere. This is a stupendous work that should provoke fertile comparative research in diverse disciplines, no less than it will inform fresh thinking within its own field of Chinese history.
— Bernard Luk, York University
Lary (emer., Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) has written a very informative introduction to Chinese migrations over the course of four millennia through her skillfully woven account of the movement of people, goods, and ideas. Chronologically, the book includes prehistory to unification, imperial times, the Republic, and the PRC, with an emphasis on 20th-century Chinese migrations from a global perspective. Each chapter starts with a brief review of that period's history and follows with discussion of migrations, themes, and peoples, places, and things. Drawing on the most current scholarship on migration studies, maritime history, and gender history, Lary has situated Chinese migrations in a larger picture from cross-disciplinary perspectives. This book also points out diverse potential research projects and will inspire more scholars and students in their own fields related to Chinese migrations. Summing Up: Recommended. General and undergraduate collections.
— Choice Reviews
A succinct, readable text for courses in China Studies and Migration Studies
Shows migration as a deeply rooted and permanent feature of Chinese history and current society
Covers migration in a single society over an extended period
Incorporates both internal migration and international migration
Focuses on migration and family
Adds a key element to our understanding of “global China”