Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945Routledge, 23 mai 2007 - 192 pages The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had suffered discrimination welcomed their proposals. The radicals’ concentration on Chinese communities abroad as outposts of Chinese politics and culture strengthened the stereotype of Chinese as clannish, unassimilable, xenophobic, and deeply introverted. This book argues that such a view has its roots less in historical truth than in political and ideological prejudice and obscures a rich vein of internationalist practice in Chinese migrant or diasporic history, which the study aims to restore to visibility. In some cases, internationalist alliances sprang from the spontaneous perception by Chinese and other non-Chinese migrants or local workers of shared problems and common solutions in everyday life and work. At other times, they emerged from under the umbrella of transnationalism, when Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist activists overseas received support for their campaigns from local internationalists; or the alliances were the product of nurturing by Chinese or non-Chinese political organizers, including anarchists, communists, and members of internationalist cultural movements like Esperantism. Based on sources in a dozen languages, and telling hitherto largely unknown or forgotten stories of Chinese migrant experiences in Russia, Germany, Cuba, Spain and Australia, this study will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, labour studies and ethnic/migration studies alike. |
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... Chinese diasporic history. It challenges the stereotype ... Chinese abroad who were only concerned to survive among their compatriots and have as little to do with foreigners as possible. Gregor Bentondoes thisby focusing on the era of labour ...
... Chinese responded to thetheory and practiceof this internationalism is a ... Chinese exploitationand displacement in Cubathatclimaxed in Chinese support,first ... labour movement tohighlight the fatesof workingmen everywhere. The details ...
... Chinese role. Drew Cottle sent me copies ofhis own and others' work on Chinese seafarersinthe Australian labour movement. Deng Lilan 邓丽兰 helped with references to theChinese transnational movementinBritain andinChina. In East Berlin ...
... Labour History, Manchester; the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University; theWorking Class Movement Library atSalford; the Institutefor SocialHistory and the Gemeentearchief, bothin Amsterdam; theCentre de Recherches surlaChine ...
... labour and socialrevolutionary internationalism unites workers andsocialists across political andethnicbarriers. The ideaofa supranational workers' solidarity emergedinthe 1830s andwas enshrined in the constitutions of the First, Second ...
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Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917-1945 Gregor Benton Aucun aperçu disponible - 2011 |
Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917-1945 Gregor Benton Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |