SOCIOL M153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pearl River Delta, Siyi, Malaysian Chinese
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Soc m153 midterm review: 4 patterns of chinese emigration, the trade pattern (pre-colonization, 1840) > . Transnational living (temporal residence, new family overseas) Network: the coolie/labor patterns (colonizing periods, mid-19th-wwi) > . Selling labor -> looking for jobs: miners, railway workers. Australia (gold rush, 1852), us (gold rush,1848); peru, cuba, southeast asia (alternative to slaves) But cannot return due to exclusion (1900s to. Wwii) (if they go home they cannot come back again: the sojourning pattern (1st half of 20th century) > . Overseas chinese (loyalty to chinese nation, regard china as homeland) More diversity (from different parts of china, mixture of rich and poor/skilled and unskilled: descent or re-migrant pattern (post wwii) (de-colonization and countries trying to build their own national identities) > . Re-migration: e. g. , malaysian chinese migrating to u. s. National identity: they don"t necessarily see themselves as chinese (due to 1. Communist; 2. de-colonization: emigrant ow from china 1801-1925.
