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World

Books

 

Blusse, Leonard. 2008, Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans.  Massechusetts. Harvard University Press. (one finds discussion of the important roles played by the Chinese in the economy of these port cities)

 

Charlotte Harris Rees. 2008. Secret Maps of the Ancient World.  Bloomington, AuthorHouse.


Ho, Fred Wei-han, and Bill Mullen. 2008. Afro Asia : Revolutionary political and cultural connections between african americans and asian Americans, Durham, NC : Duke University Press.

 

Kuhn, Philip A. 2008. Chinese among Others : Emigration in modern times. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

 

Meagher, Arnold.  2008.  The Coolie Trade: The Traffic in Chinese Laborers to Latin America 1847–1874.  Xlibris.  (Review)

 

Zhang, Sheldon. 2008. Chinese human smuggling organizations : Families, social networks, and cultural imperatives Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

 

Chin, Woon Ping, 2007, Hakka soul, Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Los Angeles

 

Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar, and Lok C. D. Siu. 2007. Asian diasporas : New formations, new conceptions, Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

 

Sassen, Saskia (ed). 2007. Deciphering the global : Its scales, spaces and subjects. New York: Routledge. (includes “Producing global economy from below : Chinese immigrant transnational entrepreneurship in Japan” / Gracia Liu Farrer, and “Translocal civilities : Chinese modern dance at downtown Los Angeles public concerts” / Marina Peterson)

 

Tan Chee Beng, Colin Storey, Julia Zimmerman (eds), 2007. Chinese Overseas, Migration, Research and Documentation. Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

 

Curley, Melissa, Wong, Siu-lun (eds), 2008, Security and Migration in Asia: The dynamics of securitization, NY: Routledge

 

Ha Jin, 2008, The Writer as Migrant, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

 

Wu, Doreen D (ed), 2008, Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age, US: University of Washington Press

 

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui(ed), 2008, Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation, Berkeley: University of California Press

 

Book Chapters

 

Chin, James K, 2008, “Human Smuggling and Trafficking in the Taiwan Strait: Security Predicament or Political Dilemma?” in Curley, Melissa and Wong, Siu-lun eds. Security and Migration in Asia: The dynamics of securitization, NY: Routledge, p.100-119

 

Wishnick, Elizabeth, 2008, “The Securitisation of Chinese Migration to the Russian Far East: Rhetoric and Reality”, in Curley, Melissa and Wong, Siu-lun eds. Security and Migration in Asia: The dynamics of securitization, NY: Routledge, p.83-99

 

Journal Articles

 

Liao, Chi-yang, Liu, Hong, 2008, “Network, State and Asian Regional Order: the Critical Reflection of Ethnic Chinese Studies”, in Overseas Chinese History Studies, No.81, p. 1-11

 

Liu, Hai-ming, Li, Ai-hui (translate), 2008, “Food, Culinary Identity and Transnational Culture: Chinese Restaurant Business in Southern California”, in Overseas Chinese History Studies, No.81, p. 12-22

 

Yue, Zhi-qiang; Wang, Shao-li, 2008, “Fenggang Yang's Studies on the Chinese American Religions: A Review”, in Overseas Chinese History Studies, No.82, p. 72-79

 

Journal Special Issues

 

AFRO-HISPANIC REVIEW, Special Issue, "Afro-Asia", Vol. 27, Number 1 (Spring 2008) Asian Diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean (including Africa): An Historical Overview

 
 

Comparative

Journal Articles

 

Salmon, Claudine.  2007.  “Cultural Links between Insulindian Chinese and Fujian as Reflected in Two Late 17th-Century Epigraphs”.  Archipel 73, Paris, 167-194.

 
 

Literature

Books

 

Aijun Zhu. (2007). Feminism and Global Chineseness: The Cultural Production of Controversial Women Authors.  Amherst, NY, Cambria Press. Data Sheet (including table of contents).  ISBN: 9781934043127

 

Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu. (2007). The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History, Amherst, NY, Cambria Press.  Data Sheet (including table of contents)

 

Journal Articles

 

Chiu, Kuei-fen, 2008.  Empire of the Chinese Sign: The Question of Chinese Diasporic Imagination in Transnational Literary Production, The Journal of Asian Studies, 67:593-620. Cambridge University

ISBN: 9781934043080.

 
 

Education

Books

 

Johanna L. Waters, (2009), Education, Migration, and Cultural Capital in the Chinese Diaspora: Transnational Students Between Hong Kong and Canada, Amherst, NY, Cambria Press. Data Sheet (including table of contents).  ISBN: 9781604975437

 

Wan, Guofang (ed).  2008.  The Education of Diverse Student Populations: A Global Perspective.  Springer:  New York.  (Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose , Vol. 2.)

 

Journal Special Issues:

 

Wan, Guofang & Dianne M. Gut. 2008.  “Introduction”Theory into Practice (Special Issues on Technology and Education).  Vol. 47, 3. p. 175-177.

 

Journal Articles:

 

Wan, Guofang & Dianne M. Gut. 2008. “Media Use by Chinese and U.S. Secondary Students: Implications for Media Literacy Education”. Theory into Practice.  Vol. 47, issue 3. p. 178-185.

 

 
 

Memory/Belonging

Books


Davidson, Andrew P., and Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng (eds), 2008, At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

 

Book Chapters

 

Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 2008, “Internet as Social Capital and Social Network: Cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai Women” in Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng ed. Chinese Women and The Cyberspace, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 25 – 47

 

Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 2008, “Introduction: Locating Chinese Women in the Cyberspace in Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng ed. Chinese Women and The Cyberspace, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 11- 24

 

 
 

Music

Books

 

Lau, Frederick, 2007, Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Includes CD), New York: Oxford University Press (includes Chinese music outside of China)

 

Lau, Frederick, and Yayoi Uno Everett (eds), 2004, Locating East Asia in Western Art Music, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press

 

Journal Articles

 

Chow, Wing-kai, Hon, Tze-ki, and Ip, Hong-yuk (eds), 2008, “Nationalizing Sound on the Verge of Chinese Modernity” in Nation, Modernity, and the Restructuring of the Field of Cultural Production in China: Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 209-226

 

Lau, Frederick, 2007, “Context, Agency, and Chineseness: the Music of Law Wing Fai” in Contemporary Music Review, Volume 26, Numbers 5-6, 585-603

 

Lau, Frederick, 2005, “Entertaining Chineseness: Chinese singing Clubs in Contemporary Bangkok”  in Visual Anthropology, Volume 18, Issue 2&3, 143 – 166

 

Lau, Frederick, and Yayoi Uno Everett (eds), 2004, "Fusion or Fission: The Paradox and Politics of Contemporary Chinese Avant-garde Music" in Locating East Asia in Western Art Music, Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 22-39

 

Lau, Frederick, 2004, “Serenading the ancestors: Chinese Qingming Festival in Honolulu” in Yearbook for Traditional Music, Volume 36, 128-143

 

Law, Daniel and Chan, Ming-chi (eds), 2004, “The Eastern Music Express and the Imagination of Multiculturalism” in Proceedings of the Symposium of the 2003 Chinese
Composer’s Festival
/, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Composer's Guild, 27-36

 

Um, Hae-kyung (ed), 2004, “Morphing Chineseness: The Changing Images of Amateur Chinese Music Clubs in Singapore” in Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts: Translating Traditions, London: Routledge, 30-42

 

[See also earlier works such as: 

Lau, Frederick, 2001, “Performing Identity: Musical Expression of Thai-Chinese in
Contemporary Bangkok
”, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Volume 16, 38-70

Lau, Frederick, 1998, “Chinese Music in the Diaspora: The Case of Teochew Music in
Thailand”, Journal of Asian Music Research Institute, Volume 20, 109-125]

 

 
 

Women

Books

 

Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng (ed), 2008, Chinese Women and The Cyberspace, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press

 

Book Chapters


Davidson, Andrew P., and Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 2008, “Introduction: Diasporic Memories and Identities” in Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Andrew P. Davidson eds. At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities  and Belonging, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-11

 
Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 2008,Collective Memories as Cultural Capital: from Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns” in Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Andrew P. Davidson eds. At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memores, Identities and Belonging, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 111 - 127.

 

 
 
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