ABSTRACT
First Published in 1999. This volume is a product of the research programme of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, entitled International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. The programme will run from 1996-2000 (for a fuller description, please see the Appendix chapter). The book was prepared during a workshop at the International Convention of Asian Scholars, 25-8 June 1997, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
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tongxiang in various localities. Such tongxiang around the world with the tongxiang who had died abroad.
yiqiao chaozhen hui) to mobilize support from Singapore, and other
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qiaoxiang connections, and this global surge has been partly led The Disruption of the Qiaoxiang Ties qiaoxiang. Although the bridges did not entirely break down, they qiaoxiang, there were only isolated examples of
by overseas Chinese organizations, particularly those in Southeast Asia. The years after 1949 saw a series of substantial changes that would reshape the nature and characteristics of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and their relationship with qiaoxiang. For one thing, with the founding of
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GOVERNMENT
INTERACTIONS OVERSEAS Support from the ethnic Chinese diaspora, including the residents of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, has been an important factor in the
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yin and yang energies. After dying, the spirit, (xiao) and their ancestors with ritual propriety, li. In life,
hun was believed to have merely moved from one realm of existence, the (renjian), where the physical form was visible, to another: the
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qiaoxiang kin simply wear ordinary clothing with a thin, symbolic hemp gongde ranges from several thousand to over gongde for their dead ancestors sometime in the 1980s and 1990s. An Opening Doors
dawu, the services of the monks or priests, service money to participating
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Menkhoff, T. and C.E. Labig Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 11:1, pp. 128- Western Experience in India and China. Ann Modern Asian Studies 26:3, pp. 469-94 Ungrounded Empires: the Cultural Modern Chinese Transnationalism. London and New Commerce and Kin in a Central Philippine City. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press Emerging Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific Region. Jakarta: Centre Southeast Asian Studies 1:1, pp. 85-95
1996 ‘Trading Networks of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore’, Murphey, R. 1977 The Outsiders: The
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Huaqiao Qingnian (The Zhanshi Taishan (Wartime Taishan) in 1937. These new qiaokan became a window on qiaokan qiaokan are believed The Revolutionary Stage, 1949-1977 qiaokan far more qiaokan survived the Communist revolution, Huancheng Qiaokan in Zhongshan (1958), and Keshan Xiangyin (Local qiaokan reflected the constant political movements which (haiwai guanxi) often raised suspicion, and was considered criminal during
Zhanshi (‘Overseas Chinese Soldiers’, 1938), Huanqiao Zhanxian qiaokan were established with the clear purposes of rallying overseas
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Other Hong Kong Report 1997, China in the Post-Deng Era and China Review 1998. Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Changes in South China was published Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. Mandarin-Capitalists
Sciences. His research interests comprise political development in China Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China (Cambridge University
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annees rouges (The Red Years) Paris, Seuil, 1987, an account (Qiaoxiang) connections. She has World Southeast Asian Studies, and
Enquete socioloque sur la Chine, 1911-1949 (A Sociological Study of
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Power and Charity: Growing with Hong Kong: The Bank of East Asia 1919-1994 (1994). Her Development in Hong Kong (1990), Hong Kong Culture and Century of Chinese Overseas (1998). Imperial China 19:1 (June 1998) 56-81. Clearance in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Critique of Anthropology, Society and Space, City & Society, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, plus contributions to
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