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The Unnoticed Battle Against Yin's Yin : Opium Chinese Women And Protestant Missionaries In Late Qing, David J. Kang

Global Asia Journal

No abstract provided.

Runaway Wives And Their Matchmakers: Lower Class Women Networks In Beijing's Courtyard Tenements, 1928-1949, Zhao Ma

Global Asia Journal

This article examines the formation and operation of lower class women’s

social network in the ghettoized courtyard neighborhood in early

twentieth-century Beijing. Drawing evidence from criminal case files, it

argues that courtyard tenements provided a gendered urban space within

which women formed, extended, and maintained a flexible and dynamic

web of durable relationships. Motivated largely by individual

circumstances and objectives, this neighborhood network remained

personalized, individualized, and “ego-centered” The network did not

come into existence for any type of political movements; nor did it entail

wider female solidarity. But the physical geography of the courtyard

tenements and the development of …

Transnationalism And Migration: Chinese Migrants In New Zealand, Raymond C.F. Chui

Global Asia Journal

Transnational migration is an integral part of the modern world. Immigration policies, economic initiatives and international agreements of modern natiion-states have shaped the growth of transnational migration. Nation-states classify migrants into different categories for the purpose of border control; they have favoured some groups of migrants over the others. This is particularly true for New Zealand, which has maintained close connections with the United Kingdom and preferred British migrants to other peoples since the nineteenth century. New Zealand has always emphasized the economic integration of migrants into the society. Against this background, Chinese migrants arrived and developed their transnational networks …

China's Third World Policy From The Maoist Era To The Present, Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

Global Asia Journal

This study examines the evolution of China's Third World policy from the Maoist era to the present. The term "third World" refers to all developing and underdeveloped countries in Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China was mainly responding to the international pressures from the United States and the Soviet Union rather than dealing with the Third World countries per se. But after the launching of the War on Terror in 2001, the American military expansion into Iraq and Afghanistan completely changed China's diplomatic priorities. Beijing has begun to pursue …

Imaginary Neighbors: African American And Asian American Writers' Visions Of China During The Cold War, Jeannie Chiu

Global Asia Journal

No abstract provided.