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Journal of Chinese Overseas (JCO) is an internationally refereed journal published in English twice a year in May and November. It carries academic articles on Chinese overseas worldwide. Topics on places in mainland China , Hong Kong , Macau and Taiwan where the emigrant communities originate, and articles on people of non-Han origins in diaspora who can trace their ancestry to China will also be considered. In addition to well-researched articles, the journal also publishes research reports and book reviews.

 

 

 

Published for the CHINESE HERITAGE CENTRE
By SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Under the auspices of the
International Society for the Studies of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO)

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS & ABSTRACTS


- INAUGURAL ISSUE (May 2005)

- SECOND ISSUE (Nov 2005)

- THIRD ISSUE (May 2006)

- FOURTH ISSUE (Nov 2006)

- FIFTH ISSUE (May 2007)

- SIXTH ISSUE (Nov 2007)

- SEVENTH ISSUE (May 2008)


INAUGURAL ISSUE (May 2005)

Contents
Articles

Within and Without: Chinese Writers Overseas
WANG GUNGWU (abstract)

Preparing Opium for America : Hong Kong and Cultural Consumption in the Chinese Diaspora
ELIZABETH SINN (abstract)

Mothers, Sons and Lovers: Fidelity and Frugality in the Overseas Chinese Divided Family before 1949
MICHAEL SZONYI (abstract)

Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Consumption, and Transnational Imagination
SUN WANNING (abstract)

Overseas Chinese and Merchant Philanthropy in China : From Culturalism to Nationalism
GLEN PETERSON (abstract)

 

Reports

Communication, Language and Identity — Attitudes toward Preserving Children’s Linguistic Identity in the UK among Parents from Mainland China
ZHANG XIAOLING 

Chinese Cooks and Mexican Tastes: The Encounter of Two
Culinary Practices in Mexico ’s Chinese Restaurants
SARAH BAK-GELLER

 

Book Reviews

Leaving China : Media, Migration and Transnational Imagination
by Sun Wanning
Reviewed by BRENDA CHAN KIN YING

Diasporic Chinese Ventures: The Life and Work of Wang Gungwu
by Gregor Benton and Liu Hong
Reviewed by HUANG JIANLI

Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe
by Frank N. Pieke, Pal Nyiri, Mette Thuno and Antonella Ceccagno
Reviewed by LI MINGHUAN

Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965
by Liu Hong and Wong Sin-Kiong
Reviewed by ADAM McKEOWN

Chinese Women and The Global Village: An Australian Site
by Jan Ryan
Reviewed by DAVID Y.H. WU


SECOND ISSUE (Nov 2005)

Contents
Articles

A Drug on the Market: Opium and the Chinese in Southeast Asia , 1750-1880
CARL A. TROCKI (abstract)

Opium and Social Control: Coolies on the Plantations of Peru and Cuba
EVELYN HU-DEHART (abstract)

Beyond the Assimilation Fixation: Skinner and the Possibility of a Spatial Approach to Twentieth-Century Thai History MICHAEL J. MONTESANO (abstract)

Vietnamese or Chinese: Viet-kieu in the Vietnam-China borderlands
CHAN YUK WAH (abstract)

Dalforce at the Fall of Singapore in 1942: An Overseas Chinese Heroic Legend
KEVIN BLACKBURN and CHEW JU ERN, DANIEL (abstract)

Community Transformation and the Formation of Ethnic Capital: Immigrant Chinese Communities in the United States
MIN ZHOU and MINGANG LIN (abstract)

 

Book Reviews

Jingwai huaren guoji wenti taolun ji (The Citizenship Problems of Chinese Overseas: A Collection of Documents and Articles)
edited by Zhou Nanjing
Reviewed by LEO SURYADINATA

Fujian qiaoxiang diaocha (Identities, Networks and Culture: Fieldwork Reports on the Homeland of Overseas Chinese in Fujian )
edited by Li Minghuan
Reviewed by JAMES K.CHIN

Water Frontier. Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880
edited by Nola Cooke and Li Tana
Reviewed by CLAUDINE SALMON

Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State , 1882-1941, Kedah and Penang
by Wu Xiao An
Reviewed by CHIN YEE WHAH

After the Rush: Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940
edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald, and Paul MacGregor
Reviewed by CHARLES A.COPPEL

Chinese Migration in Germany : Making Home in Transnational Space
by Maggi Wai-Han Leung
Reviewed by METTE THUNO

Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds
by Sharon A.Carstens
Reviewed by MAK LAU FONG

Marital Acts:Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora
by Jiemin Bao
Reviewed by HUANG SHU-MIN


THIRD ISSUE (May 2006)

Contents
Articles

Virtual Communities and Chinese National Identity
BRENDA CHAN (abstract)

“You Can Never Go Home Again”: Cultural Memory and Identity Formation in the Writing of Southeast Asian Chinese
JAMES ST. ANDRÉ (abstract)

Transnational Homeland Concerns and Participation in US Politics: A Comparison among Immigrants from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
PEI-TE LIEN (abstract)

Entanglement of Business and Politics in the Chinese Diaspora: Interrogating the Wartime Patriotism of Aw Boon Haw
HUANG JIANLI (abstract)

Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Strategic Practices in Sojourning
TETSU ICHIKAWA (abstract)

Report

Gender and Migration Networks: New Approaches to Research on Chinese Migration to France and Europe
CARINE PINA-GUERASSIMOFF

Book Reviews

Qiaowu yu waijiao guanxi yanjiu: Zhongguo fangqi “shuangchong guoji”de huigu yu fansi (Overseas Chinese Affairs and Diplomatic Relations: Retrospect on China’s Abandoning of its Policy of “Dual Nationality”)
by Cheng Xi
Reviewed by NING ZHANG

The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity
edited by Laurence J.C.Ma, and Carolyn Cartier
Reviewed by LIU HAIMING

East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination
edited by Charles Ferrall, Paul Miller, and Keren Smith
Reviewed by JOHN FITZGERAL

Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia. The Case of the Ethnic Chinese
edited by Leo Suryadinata
Reviewed by AMY L. FREEDMAN


FOURTH ISSUE (Nov 2006)

Contents
Articles

Why China Historians Should Study the Chinese Diaspora, and Vice-versa
PHILIP A. KUHN

Transnationalism as a New Mode of Immigrant Labor Market Incorporation: Preliminary Evidence from Chinese Transnational Migrants
PHILIP YANG (abstract)

Migrant Transnationality and Its Evolving Nature: A Case Study of Mainland Chinese Migrants in Australia
JIA GAO (abstract)

Expanding the Cantonese Diaspora: Sojourners and Settlers in the West River Basin
STEVEN B. MILES (abstract)

Extinction and Adventures on the Chinese Diasporic Frontier
JING TSU (abstract)

The Trading Culture of Jade Stones Among the Yunnanese in Burma and Thailand , 1962–88
WEN-CHIN CHANG (abstract)

Report

Haigui : A New Area in China ’s Policy toward the Chinese Diaspora?
WANG CANGBAI, WONG SIU-LUN and SUN WENBIN

Book Reviews

Anti-Japanese or Pro-Japanese: Overseas Chinese, the Chinese Nationalist Government and the Wang Regime
by Lee Ying-Hui
Reviewed by WANG CANGBAI

Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting
Edited by Tim Lindsey and Helen Pausacker
Reviewed by DEDE OETOMO

Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution
by Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui and Moisés Sío Wong
Reviewed by LI ANSHAN

Chinese St. Louis : From Enclave to Cultural Community
by Huping Ling
Reviewed by CHENG HONG

Dutch Colonial Education: The Chinese Experience in Indonesia ,1900–1942
by Ming Govaars, trans. by Lorre Lynn Trytten
Reviewed by SAI SIEW MIN

 


FIFTH ISSUE (May 2007)

Contents
Articles

From “Voluntary” to “truly Voluntary” Associations:
The Structure of the Chinese Community in French Polynesia, 1865-2005
ANNE-CHRISTINE TRÉMON (abstract)

Activists on the Fringe: Chinese Intelligentsia in Penang in the Early 20th Century
TAN SOON CHENG (abstract)

The Identity Formation of American-Born Chinese in the 1930s:
A Review of Lei Jieqiong’s (Kit King Louis) Master’s Thesis
HAIMING LIU (abstract)

Diverse and Transnational: Chinese (PRC) Immigrants in the United States
XIA0-HUANG YIN (abstract)

Report

Chinese Graduate Students’ Adaptation to Learning in America: A Cultural Perspective
ZHONGHENG ZHANG and JUAN XU

Book Reviews

A History of the Hok Tek Chi Loke Yah Teng Association, 1824-2004,
by Zeng Ling; Hok Tek Chi Loke Yah Teng Archival Collection, vols. 1-3,
Edited by Zeng Ling
Reviewed by LEE CHEE HIANG

Tsinoy: The Story of the Chinese in Philippine Life
Edited by Teresita Ang See, Go Bon Juan, Doreen Go Yu and Yvonne Chua
Reviewed by WONG KWOK CHU

The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity
By Bernard P. Wong
Reviewed by JOSEPH BOSCO

Voluntary Organizations in the Chinese Diaspora and Ethnic Identity
Edited by Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce and Evelyn Hu-Dehart
Reviewed by BRENDA S.A.YEOH

Caribbean Quarterly. Special issue on The Chinese in the Caribbean
Reviewed by LOK C.D. SIU


SIXTH ISSUE (Nov 2007)

Contents
Articles

Global Chinese Migrants and Performing Chineseness
EDGAR WICKBERG (abstract)

The Education Concerns and Political Outlook of Lim Keng Lian (1893-1968)
JASON LIM (abstract)

Chinese Language Maintenance: A Study of Chinese-American Parental Perceptions and Activities
WENZHONG (ERIC) YANG (abstract)

An Excursion into Cai Peihuo's Colonial Diary, 1929-1936
ANN HEYLEN (abstract)

Book Reviews

Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites in Colonial Manila, 1880-1916
by Andrew Wilson
Reviewed by TERESITA ANG SEE

Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors
edited by Chung Sue Fawn and Priscilla Wegars
Reviewed by CHAN YUK WAH

Memoirs of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama
by Lok C.D. Siu
Reviewed by KATHLEEN LOPEZ

Golden Threads: The Chinese in Regional New South Wales
by Janis Wilton
Reviewed by CAROLE TAN

From Urban Enclave to Ethnic Suburb: New Asian Communities in Pacific Rim Countries
edited by Wei Li
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER MERRITT


SEVENTH ISSUE (May 2008)

Contents
Articles

Changing Roles, Continuing Ideas: Tan Kah Kee in 1949 and 1950
LU HU (abstract)

Feature: The Chinese in South Africa
Karen L. Harris, Guest Editor

In the Pink of Health or the Yellow of Condition? Chinese Workers, Colonial Medicine and the Journey to South Africa, 1904-1907
ANDREW MACDONALD (abstract)

From Demand for “Asiatic” Labor to Importation of Indentured Chinese Labor: Race Identity in the Recruitment of Unskilled Labor for South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, 1903-1910
TU T. HUYNH (abstract)

State, Myth, and Agency in the Construction of Chinese South African Identities, 1948-1994
YOON JUNG PARK (abstract)

Chinese Migration and China’s Foreign policy in Africa
EMMANUEL MA MUNG (abstract)

Report

The Estate of a Chinese Woman in the Mid-Eighteenth Century at the Cape of Good Hope
JAMES C. ARMSTRONG

Reconciling with History: The Chinese-Canadian Head Tax Redress
PETER LI

Book Reviews

All Under Heaven – The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa.
by Darryl Accone
Reviewed by KAREN L. HARRIS

Huozai biechu. Xianggang Yinni huaren koushu lishi (Life is Elsewhere. Stories of the Indonesian Chinese in Hong Kong) 活在别处: 香港印尼华人口述历史
edited by Wang Cangbai
Reviewed by CLAUDINE SALMON

Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Foreign Histories, 1917-1945
by Gregor Benton
Reviewed by XIANG BIAO

Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia: A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era
by Nyíri Pál
Reviewed by JAMES K.CHIN

The Business of Politics and Ethnicity: A History of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry
by Sikko Visscher
Reviewed by YOW CHEUN HOE

 

 
 
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