Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters"
Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing
history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and
in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in
English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of
the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and
transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and
cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by
distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending
regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes
substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to
the comparative study of global migration.
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