This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent. Long before European colonists se

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China�

Leading scholars in the field consider the profound importance of meanings of place and the spatial processes of mobility and settlement for the Chinese oversea

As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. In this volume, international scholars