ABSTRACT
The migration of Chinese to different parts of the world has been a very significant process of human migration in world history. Today we not only find Chinese of different nationalities (CDN) in different parts of the world, there are also transnational networks among CDN and between CDN and China.1 Migration creates multiple homes and transregional and, in the language today, transnational relations. From the very beginning of migration, Chinese migrants maintained relations with their homeland, hoping to return one day. Many ended up living in foreign lands, but their links with the Chinese homeland had tremendous impacts on the economic and social life of qiaoxiang, the regions where emigrants migrated overseas.
