Journal of World History, September 22nd, 2001
The Last Half Century of the Chinese Overseas. Edited by ELIZABETH SINN. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998. Pp. 508. $46.50 (cloth).
The Last Half Century of the Chinese Overseas contains a sample of papers presented in Hong Kong at a December 1994 conference by the same name. Both the book and the conference attempt to address the changing nature of the Chinese diaspora in the post-World War II era. The volume contains twenty-five essays that trace the increasing heterogeneity of the Chinese diaspora with varying degrees of success. While some of the essays come across as being r...
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