Migrating Fujianese : ethnic, family, and gender identities in an early modern maritime world
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Bibliographic Information
Migrating Fujianese : ethnic, family, and gender identities in an early modern maritime world
(Women and gender in China studies / edited by Grace S. Fong, v. 7)
Brill, c2016
- : hardback
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With the Fujian coast at its center, this book reveals the intellectual, migratory and gendered relationships that tied Fijian to the Chinese imperial domain and to its overseas networks. This Fujian study also offers ways to analyze local histories of late imperial China from a more global perspective. Based on a wide range of sources, such as business contracts, legal documents, women's writings, and folksongs, Migrating Fujianese elucidates China's southeast coast and its migration patterns. Examining this multi-ethnic migrant community through the lens of ethnicity shows the complex operation of linked chain migration (overseas male emigration and overland family migration by the ethnic She people) and its impact on the gender relations and family strategies of the coastal people. The study argues that examination of Fujianese migration through the lenses of gender and ethnicity is crucial to understanding the relationship between the flow of people and the society nourishing that flow.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations xi
Introduction 1
Part 1: Fujianese Coastal Society in the Context of Qing Rule
1 Lobbying at the Court: The Minxue (Fujian Learning) Network 19
2 Transforming Customs: Ethnicity and Gender in the Imperial Civilizing Project 40
3 Piracy Plots: Marine Predators in the Interregional Trade Network 53
Part 2: Great Families at Home and on the Road
4 Competing for Local Influence: Leading Families in Zhangpu County 79
5 Imagining the Empire: Fujian Guixiu (Genteel Ladies) at Home and on the Road 108
6 Sharing the Story: Imagination across Boundaries in the Lychee Mirror 131
Part 3: Overland and Overseas Migration
7 Survival Strategies: Gender, Ethnicity, and Kinship 155
8 Going Overseas: Remittances and Letters across the Ocean 177
Conclusion: Fujian in the Maritime World 198
Appendix: Fujian Guixiu Poems Cited in Chapter 5 207
Bibliography 211
Glossary 226
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