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C hinese Migration and Entangled Histories: Broadening the Contours of Migratory Historiography
Author(s) -
Low Kelvin E.Y.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12037
Subject(s) - historiography , politics , expansionism , sociocultural evolution , legislation , history , economic geography , sociology , economy , political economy , genealogy , geography , political science , economics , law , anthropology , archaeology
This paper broadens the analytical contours of C hinese migration by employing the paradigm of histoire croisée . By comparing three connected episodes within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: (1) B ritish expansionism; (2) K uomintang activities and B ritish migratory legislation; and (3) the interconnection of the slump in C hina's silk industry, the anti‐marriage movement, and the intertwinement of historiographies of C hina and S ingapore – the entangled histories approach offers analytic purchase for which C hinese migration can be scrutinised with attention paid to the interpellations of historical contingencies and economic relations. The paper therefore analyses broader sociocultural and political patterns that inflect migratory flows, and considers the significance of how migratory historiography bears upon social memory of C hinese female migrants.