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CHINESE MIGRANTS ABROAD
Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
Michael W. Charney, Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Chee Kiong Tong
i
Part One. Chineseness and "Overseas" Chinese Identifications and Identities of a Migrant Community
Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences
Jamie Mackie
3
Providers, Protectors, Guardians: Migration And Reconstruction of Masculinities
Ray Hibbins
23
Tasting the Night: Food, Ethnic Transaction, and the Pleasure of Chineseness in Malaysia
Souchou Yao
41
Multiple Identities among the Returned Overseas Chinese in Hong Kong
James Chin Kong
63
Part Two. Chinese or Western Education? Cultural Choices and Education
Chinese Education and Changing National and Cultural Identities among the Overseas Chinese in Modern Japan: A Study of Chûka Dôbun Gakkô [Tongwen Chinese School] in Kobe
Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
85
Chinese Education in Prewar Singapore: A Preliminary Analysis of Factors Affecting the Development of Chinese Vernacular Schools
Tong Bao Wee
101
Hokkien Immigrant Society and Modern Chinese Education in British Malaya, 1904–1941
Ching-Hwang Yen
114
The Search for Modernity: The Chinese in Sabah and English Education
Danny Tze-Ken Wong
145
Part Three. Fitting In: Social Integration in the Host Society
Language, Education, and Occupational Attainment of Foreign-Trained Chinese and Polish Professional Immigrants in Toronto, Canada
Zong Li
163
Career and Family Factors in Intention for Permanent Settlement in Australia
Siew-Ean Khoo and Anita Mak
181
No Longer Migrants: Southern New Zealand Chinese in the 20th Century
Niti Pawakapan
204
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Reflections on the Cultural Implications of Modern Education
Guan Kin Lee
229
BACK MATTER
Michael W. Charney, Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Chee Kiong Tong
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