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Author(s): Glen Peterson
ISBN(s): 9780415616706, 0415616700
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.85 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415616700 
ISBN 13: 9780415616706
Author: Glen Peterson

Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as “domestic Overseas Chinese”. They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who “returned” to the People’s Republic in order to pursue higher education and to serve their motherland. In this book, Glen Peterson describes the nature of the official state project by which domestic Overseas Chinese were incorporated into the economic, political and social structures of the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s, examines the multiple and contradictory meanings associated with being “domestic Overseas Chinese”, and explores how “domestic Overseas Chineseness” as political category shaped social experiences and identities. This book fills an important gap in the literature on Chinese migration and Chinese transnationalism and will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars of these subjects, as well as Chinese history and Asian Studies more generally.

Overseas Chinese in the People s Republic of China 1st Table of contents:

Socialist China and the Huaqiao
Chinese migration in historical perspective
The emergence of qiaoxiang society
‘Overseas Chinese affairs’ as an arena of Chinese state activity
The Chinese Communist Party and Overseas Chinese before 1949
The Chinese Communist Party’s conflicted image of the Huaqiao
Source materials and outline of subsequent chapters
Transnational families under siege
Getting in touch: the letter-writing campaign of the early 1950s
The 1950 Marriage Law and transnational households
Land reform and transnational households
Conclusion
Youdai (优待) The making of a special category
Changing the class status of Overseas Chinese landlords and rich peasants
Restoring ownership of Overseas Chinese-owned houses
Privileged consumers
The 1955 Remittance Decree
Open for business The quest for investment and remittances
Economic and political objectives
‘State capitalism is the way to go’
Controversy over which ‘Overseas Chinese’ investments should be privileged
Overseas Chinese capital and refugee labour in the development of China’s rubber industry
Limitations
Patriots, refugees, tycoons and students ‘Returning’ to China in the 1950s
Patriots: building New China
Refugees: the state farm solution
Capitalists: leading the good life
Students: idealism, disillusionment, despair
Tensions: ‘Returned Overseas Chinese’ as an unstable category
Leaving again
Socialist transformation and the end of youdai ( 优待)
From ‘consuming societies’ to ‘producing societies’
Ideological pressures and exhortations
The impact of changing economic structures
The grain supply crisis of spring 1955
The road to collectivization
The problem of labour within Qiaojuan and Guiqiao households
The anti-rightist campaign and the attack on ‘privileged treatment’
The Great Leap Forward, mass mobilization and the end of youdai
Cultural Revolution and beyond
The Cultural Revolution
The new era since 1978

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