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Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Global Era

Edited by Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong

As we enter the 21st century it is clear that the economic growth China has enjoyed has been extraordinary. Although Western countries continue to dominate...

ISBN: 978-0-415-46218-1 | Published June 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

By Pál Nyiri

Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been...

ISBN: 978-0-415-44686-0 | Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Chinese Migrants and Internationalism

Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945

By Gregor Benton

The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing...

ISBN: 978-0-415-41868-3 | Published May 29th 2007 by Routledge.

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Chinese Ethnic Business

Global and Local Perspectives

Edited by Eric Fong, Chiu Luk

Providing a crucial understanding of how globalization impacts on the development of Chinese businesses, this book analyzes the unprecedented changes in Chinese ethnic business due...

ISBN: 978-0-415-39718-6 | Published November 9th 2006 by Routledge.

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Chinese Transnational Networks

Edited by Chee-Beng Tan

The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are...

ISBN: 978-0-415-39583-0 | Published October 17th 2006 by Routledge.

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Migration, Ethnic Relations and Chinese Business

By Kwok-bun Chan

Incorporating research carried out over the last twenty years, this book documents the personal and collective responses of Chinese migrants and refugees to the prejudice...

ISBN: 978-0-415-36927-5 | Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge.

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Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

By Kwok-bun Chan

Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various...

ISBN: 978-0-415-36929-9 | Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge.

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Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949

Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates

By Hung-yok Ip

This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated...

ISBN: 978-0-415-35165-2 | Published February 24th 2005 by Routledge.

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Diasporic Chinese Ventures

The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu

Edited by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu

This collection of essays by and about Wang Gungwu brings together some of Wang's most recent and representative writing about the ethnic Chinese outside China...

ISBN: 978-0-415-33142-5 | Published January 29th 2004 by Routledge.

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Chinese Enterprise, Transnationalism and Identity

Edited by Terence Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

The book focuses on one ethnic community - the Chinese - and examines the variety of issues surrounding enterprise development from national and transnational perspectives,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-32527-1 | Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Chinatown, Europe

An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s

By Dr Flemming Christiansen, Flemming Christiansen

Is Chinatown a ghetto, an area of exotic sensations or a business venture? What makes a European Chinese, Chinese?
The histories of Chinese communities in Europe...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1072-0 | Published May 22nd 2003 by Routledge.

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Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941

Kedah and Penang

By Wu Xiao An

This book examines how Chinese family and business networks, focused around activities such as revenue farming, including opium, the rice trade, and pawnbroking, and related...

ISBN: 978-0-415-30176-3 | Published February 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Financing China's Rural Enterprises

By Dr Jun Li, Jun Li

Rural enterprises have played an important role in the extraordinary success of China's economy over the last two decades. They have greatly increased off-farm employment...

ISBN: 978-0-415-29682-3 | Published December 19th 2002 by Routledge.

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Chinas Unlimited

Making the Imaginaries of China and Chineseness

By Gregory B. Lee

A socio-cultural study of the historical representation of China and Chineseness over the past hundred years or so, much of this book discusses the Orientalizing...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1492-6 | Published November 7th 2002 by Routledge.

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Birth Control in China 1949-2000

Population Policy and Demographic Development

By Thomas Scharping

This comprehensive volume analyses Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1154-3 | Published October 24th 2002 by Routledge.

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Confucian Capitalism

Discourse, Practice and the Myth of Chinese Enterprise

By Souchou Yao

The discourse of Confucian Capitalism has been crucial in shaping our understanding of the brilliant economic successes of the Chinese diaspora all over the world....

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1583-1 | Published October 17th 2002 by Routledge.

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Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

By Anne-Marie Brady

This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1493-3 | Published October 10th 2002 by Routledge.

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Paradoxes of Labour Reform

Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market

By Luigi Tomba

Labour reform is only one component of the larger process of reforming economy and society experienced by China over the last three decades. This book...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1151-2 | Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge.

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A Road Is Made

Communism in Shanghai 1920-1927

By Steve Smith

This is a study of the activities, ideas and internal life of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai during its formative period. It investigates the...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1207-6 | Published August 11th 2000 by Routledge.

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The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927

By Alexander Pantsov

Based mainly on unknown Russian archival sources which have previously been unobtainable, this book analyses the Bolshevik concepts of the Chinese revolution and their reception...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1187-1 | Published January 24th 2000 by Routledge.

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New Fourth Army

Communist Resistance Along the Yangtse and the Huai, 1938-1941

By Gregor Benton

This study looks at the first three years of the Chinese Communists' New Fourth Army, between the late spring of 1938 and January 1941. The...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1071-3 | Published July 26th 1999 by Routledge.

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The Literary Field of Twentieth Century China

By Michel Hockx

At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place within a specific social space,...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1073-7 | Published June 24th 1999 by Routledge.

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Internal and International Migration

Chinese Perspectives

By Hein Mallee, Frank N. Pieke

Comparing migration in China itself to Chinese migration to Europe, this book critically assesses received ideas, perceptions and theories concerning internal and international migration.Comparing migration...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1076-8 | Published April 23rd 1999 by Routledge.

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Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas

By Lynn Pan

Geographically organised, this Encyclopedia provides a panoramic view across past and present overseas Chinese communities worldwide. As such, it reflects the growing interest of international...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-1122-2 | Published December 4th 1998 by Routledge.

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Chen Duxiu's Last Articles and Letters, 1937-1942

By Gregor Benton

Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, after a revolutionary career in the movement that overthrew the Manchus and brought in the...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-0618-1 | Published August 25th 1998 by Routledge.

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Village Inc.

Chinese Rural Society in the 1990s

By Dr Flemming Christiansen, Flemming Christiansen, Zhang Junzuo Zhang

This volume investigates the forces and processes in Chinese rural society, exploring the local levels of government in rural areas (villages, townships and towns) as important managers...

ISBN: 978-0-7007-0619-8 | Published April 7th 1998 by Routledge.

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Series Details:

Edited by Gregor Benton, Flemming Christiansen, Terence Gomez and Delia Davin, all at Cardiff University, UK, Frank N. Pieke, The University of Oxford Institute for Chinese Studies, UK

Chinese Worlds publishes high-quality scholarship, research monographs, and source collections on Chinese history and society. 'Worlds' signals the diversity of China, the cycles of unity and division through which China's modern history has passed, and recent research trends toward regional studies and local issues. It also signals that Chineseness is not contained within borders - ethnic migrant communities overseas are also 'Chinese worlds.'