scholarly journals Overseas Chinese Nationalism. The Genesis of the Pan-Chinese Movement in Indonesia, 1900-1916.

1961 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Giok Po Oey ◽  
Lea E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Chinese Nationalism

What Is This “Chinese” in Overseas Chinese? Sojourn Work and the Place of China's Minority Nationalities in Extraterritorial Chinese-ness

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Vasantkumar
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiethnic Populations

This essay argues that to adequately answer the question its title poses, anthropological approaches to national and transnational China(s) must be grounded in the history of Qing imperial expansion. To this end, it compares and explores the connections between three examples of the “sojourn work” that has gone into making mobile, multiethnic populations abroad into Overseas Chinese. The first example deals with recent official attempts to project the People's Republic of China's multiethnic vision of Chinese-ness beyond its national borders. The second highlights the importance of the early Chinese nation-state in the making of Overseas Chinese community in Southeast Asia in the first decades of the twentieth century. The final case foregrounds the late imperial routes of nascent Chinese nationalism to argue that, in contrast to much of the current rhetoric on the Chinese “diaspora,” national and transnational modes of Chinese community emerged together from the ruins of the Qing empire. Together the three examples point to the need to question the usual ways scholars have conceptualized (Overseas) Chinese-ness.

scholarly journals The changing political identity of the "Overseas Chinese" in Australian Politics

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Chongyi Feng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
National Values ◽  
Party State

This paper explores the role played by the Chinese communities in the Australian politics of multicultural democracy from the perspective of political socialisation and resocialisation. It argues that there is no such a thing as inherent “cultural values” or “national values” that differentiate ‘the Chinese” politically from the mainstream Australian society. This paper focuses on the Chinese nationalism of Han Chinese migrants in Australia. Within the “new mainland migrants” who have come to Australia directly from the PRC since the 1980s, nationalism is much weaker among the Tiananmen/ June 4 generation who experienced pro-democracy activism during their formative years in the 1980s. Nationalism is much stronger among the Post-Tiananmen Generation who are victims of the “patriotism campaign” in the 1990s when the Chinese Communist party-state sought to replace discredited communism with nationalism as the major ideology for legitimacy.

“Chinese, but not quite”: Huaqiaoand the Marginalization of the Overseas Chinese

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Soon Keong Ong
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
State Building ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
World War ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Chinese Nation

Abstract This article reflects on the representations of overseas Chinese in Chinese political and popular discourses from the late Qing to World War II. It argues that contrary to prevalent views, which credit the success of the Chinese nationalist discourse in mobilizing the overseas Chinese to their re-incorporation into the Chinese nation, extraterritorial Chinese nationalism depended not so much on the rhetoric of inclusion, but rather on the separation of the overseas Chinese as a sub-ethnic group, particularly after they were “rebranded” as huaqiao, or Chinese sojourners. This analysis begins by looking at the key reasons for Chinese political activists’ newfound interest in the diasporas — in soliciting huaqiao contributions to China’s state-building projects — and argues that they imbued huaqiao with certain positive qualities only insofar as these made them relevant to China. The truth is, prejudices against the emigrants have persisted and Chinese within China continue to view huaqiao as uncouth, uncultured, and even “unChinese.”

Chang Yu-nan and the Chaochow Railway (1904–1908): A Case Study of Overseas Chinese Involvement in China's Modern Enterprise

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Ching-Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Economic Nationalism ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Railway Construction ◽  
Modern Enterprise ◽  
Economic Modernization ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
Prime Target

With the climax of imperialism in China at the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese nationalism in its modern form grew rapidly and became ever more assertive. As the imperialists concentrated on economic gains, the frustrated nationalists gave increasing attention to economic defences. The prime target of the imperialists was the control of mining and railway construction in different areas; so ‘to resist the imperialists’ became the catchword of the day, and the movement for recovering mining and railway construction rights highlighted the development of Chinese economic nationalism. While revolutionaries and the fugitive reformers abroad worked out their political programmes for the salvation of China, the conservative Manchu government and scholar-gentry tried to resist imperialism by promoting economic nationalism. To recover the mining and railway rights, to find the alternative capital for economic modernization and to play one power against another, became the strategic aims of economic nationalism.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1963 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
K.W. Galis ◽  
Josef Röder ◽  
H.J. Graaf ◽  
Nicholas Tarling ◽  
H.J. Graaf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Studies ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
British Policy ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

- K.W. Galis, Josef Röder, Felsbilder und Vorgeschichte des MacCluer-Golfes. West-Neuguinea. L.C. Wittich Verlag. Darmstadt. 1959. 162 pp. geïll. - H.J. de Graaf, Nicholas Tarling, British policy in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago 1824-1871. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol. XXX, Pt. 3 (no. 179). - H.J. de Graaf, C. Northcote Parkinson, British intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877. University of Malaya Press, Singapore, 1960. 375 pp. text, 1 ill., 10 maps. - A.F.P. Hulsewé, Lea E. Williams, Overseas Chinese Nationalism - The genesis of the Pan-Chinese movement in Indonesia, 1900-1916. The center for International Studies, Massachusets Institute of Technology (The Free Press, Glencoe, Ill.; 1960). xiv + 235 pp.

Radicalization of the Protect Diaoyutai Movement in 1970s-America

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinxing Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Two Sides

AbstractIn the early 1970s, overseas Chinese students in the United States protested against Japan's claim to the Diaoyutai Islands. Emerging at a time when the rivalry between the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland to represent China was at a critical juncture, the movement soon found itself caught up in the struggle between the two sides. It was out of the Protect Diaoyutai Movement that a new ideological constituent of overseas Chinese nationalism came to light, looking to the PRC as the hope for a sovereign China. It became a predominant force among overseas Chinese activists and the movement changed its direction from defending Diaoyutai to seeking Taiwan's reunification with the mainland. The paper discusses the factors that shaped and eventually radicalized the movement. It asserts that the event was a turning point in the evolution of overseas Chinese nationalism which transformed an undercurrent into a surging tide that gave rise to a new Chinese national identity among overseas Chinese in America.

Ambivalent fatherland: The Chinese National Salvation Movement in Malaya and Java, 1937–41

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Kankan Xie
Keyword(s):  
Local Politics ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
National Salvation ◽  
Natural Result ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Rare Opportunity

China's resistance to Japanese aggression escalated into a full-scale war in 1937. The continuously deteriorating situation stimulated the rise of Chinese nationalism in the diaspora communities worldwide. The Japanese invasion of China, accompanied by the emergence of the National Salvation Movement (NSM) in Southeast Asia, provided the overseas Chinese with a rare opportunity to re-examine their ‘Chineseness’, as well as their relationships with the colonial states and the increasingly self-aware indigenous populations. This research problematises traditional approaches that tend to regard the NSM as primarily driven by Chinese patriotism. Juxtaposing Malaya and Java at the same historical moment, the article argues that the emergence of the NSM was more than just a natural result of the rising Chinese nationalism. Local politics and the shifting political orientations of overseas Chinese communities also profoundly shaped how the NSM played out in different colonial states.

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