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 lifeand 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 studiesalike.
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