The Chinese overseas have long been relevant to China, especially to qiaoxiang, and vice-versa. Qiaoxiang refers to regions from where emigrants migrated overseas, where there are therefore ties with Chinese communities overseas. Unlike most other works, which cover either China or the Chinese overseas, this book examines both China and the Chinese overseas in relation to qioaxiang.

Introduction: Chinese Overseas, China, Transnational Networks, and Homelands Part 1: Transformation in Ancestral Homeland 1. Comings and Goings: Pearl River Delta Identities in an Era of Change and Transformation 2. Transforming an Old Qiaoxiang: Impacts of the Chinese Diaspora on Panyu, 1978-2000 Part 2: Ethnic Chinese, China and Transnational Networks 3. The Shishan Ye People in Malaysia and the Ancestral Homeland in China 4. Lukchin: Chinese Thai Transnational Bridge Builders 5. Ethnic Homeland and Chinese Americans: Conceiving a Transnational Political Network 6. The Comintern and Chinese Overseas Part 3: Diversity of Settlements and Homelands 7. Qiaoxiang and the Diversity of Chinese Settlements in Australia and New Zealand 8. A Chinese Diasporic Community in Northern Thailand: Contested Political Loyalty and Shifting Ethnicity 9. The Chinese of Trinidad and Tobago: Mobility, Modernity, and Assimilation During and After Colonialism