Chinese Migrants Write Home: A Dual-language Anthology Of Twentieth-century Family Letters (Hardcover)

Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Qiaopi had numerous functions and dimensions, ranging from economic and social to cultural and political. In June 2013, the Qiaopi Project was officially registered under UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' programme, set up in 1992 because of 'a growing awareness of the parlous state of preservation of documentary heritage' in the world.This book presents around one hundred letters from Singapore, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the USA, and Canada, including photographic reproductions of the original letters, transcriptions in Chinese characters, and English translations, where necessary with explanatory notes. Most of the letters collected in Chinese and non-Chinese archives, and in this sourcebook, were products of the Qiaopi system as traditionally defined. A few, especially some to and from North America, especially in the second half of the twentieth century, went through the Post Office, and were not handled by Chinese remittance companies. Not all the letters accompanied remittances.侨批是指海外�人移民通过民间渠�寄回侨乡，附带家书或简�留言的汇款。侨批涉��济�社会�文化�政治等�方�的内容。 2013年，中国侨批档案�功入选《世界记忆�录》，�为人类共�的记忆�产。本资料集收集了�自新加��中国�马�西亚�泰国�美国�加拿大等国家的100多�侨批与回批的原始文件副本，编者对这批资料进行了整��转写�校对�翻译。这些原始资料�仅包括传统定义上的侨批（�侨汇和侨信），�时也包括了一些�人移民书信，有些是�人移民与中国国内亲人的往�书信，有些则是移居��地区的�人移民之间的往�书信。

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Imprint:	World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	October 2019
Editors:	Gregor Benton • Huimei Zhang • Hong Liu
Dimensions:	229 x 254 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	600
ISBN-13:	978-981-3274-92-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	981-3274-92-1
Barcode:	9789813274921

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