E-book
Voluntary organizations in the Chinese Diaspora / edited by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Evelyn Hu-Dehart.
This book argues that Chinese voluntary organizations continue to play a significant role in both the established and new Chinese communities in the Diaspora.
Record details
- ISBN: 9789882203822
- ISBN: 9882203825
- ISBN: 1282707515
- ISBN: 9781282707511
- ISBN: 9786612707513
- ISBN: 6612707518
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 295 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
- Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; ©2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : the Chinese Diaspora and voluntary associations / Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Evelyn Hu-Dehart -- Between tradition and modernity : the Chinese Association of Johor Bahru, Malaysia / P. Pui Huen Lim-- Cultural politics of clan associations in contemporary Singapore / Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce -- Chinese voluntary and involuntary associations in Indonesia / Mary Somers Heidhues-- Chinese charity organizations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam : the past and present / Satohiro Serizawa--- Association divided, association united : the social organization of Chaozhou and Fujian migrants in Hong Kong / Susanne Y.P. Choi-- Voluntary associations in a predominantly male immigrant community : the Chinese on the northern Mexican frontier, 1880-1930 -- Evelyn Hu-Dehart -- Development of Chinese communal places in Sydney / Walter Lalich-- Roles and contributions of Chinese women entrepreneurs in community organizations in Sydney -- Angeline Low -- Paradox of ethnicization and assimilation : the development of ethnic organizations in the Chinese immigrant community in the United States / Zhou Min and Rebecca Y. Kim -- Ethnic church attendance and social participation of immigrants in Canada / Eric Fong and Linda Lee -- From "loose sand" to "cloakroom community" : Chinese associations in the Czech Republic / Markéta Moore. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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