Title:

Joining the Modern World: Inside and Outside China

Editor(s)/Author(s):

Wang Gungwu

Year:

2000

Publisher(s):

World Scientific Publishing Co. & Singapore University Press

Abstract:

Contents:

  • Preface
  • Joining the Modern World
  • Revolution and the Chinese Abroad
  • A Single Chinese Diaspora?
  • Hong Kong and an Ambivalent Modernity
  • The Shanghai-Hong Kong Linkage
  • Transforming the Trading Chinese
  • Chinese Values and Memories of Modern War
  • Modern Work Cultures and the Chinese
  • Index