Upriver journeys : diaspora and empire in southern China, 1570-1850
Steven B. Miles
Bok · Engelsk
| Omfang | xii, 332 sider
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| Opplysninger | I. Imperial intermediaries: Officials: agents of empire in the upriver frontier, 1570-1740 -- Students: migration and civil examinations, 1570-1760 -- Merchants: commercial networks and state support, 1700-1850 -- II. Diasporic families: Husbands and wives in the West River basin -- Upriver settlers and delta lineages.. - "Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in what would become a global diaspora"--
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| ISBN | 9780674975200
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