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本书通过东亚港口城市的华人社团和企业的个案研究,探讨地域间商贸网络的形成和发展,进而讨论网络与市场、社会与国家、地方化与全球化"错综"的互动关系。书里的不同章节透过近一个多世纪以来,在东亚港口城市华人社会和商业网络的研究试图说明,这些网络是在与国家和市场的频密互动中发挥作用,并在这一进程中调适自身的机制和功能。因此,通过解构和重估华人社会和商业网络的历史性、空间性、制度性和局限性,本书的个案能够让读者从历史和空间的视野重新审视当前学术界关于网络的辩论。另外,本书的十二位作者,如刘宏、廖赤阳、王维、村上卫、滨下武志、陈丽园等分别出生、受教和任职于中国大陆、台湾、日本、新加坡、英国、美国等地,跨国的生活和研究经历,对于华商网络的题材兼具感性与理性的双重认识。

Preface; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Migration and New National Identities / Wang Gungwu; Part I: Overview; 2. Upgrading the Migrant: Neither Huaqiao nor Huaren / Wang Gungwu; 3. Groundlessness And Utopia: The Chinese Diaspora and Territory / Emmanuel Ma Mung; 4.?????????? (The Xiao Yucan Principle and Its Historical Destiny) / Zhou Nanjing; Part II: Identity and Ethnicity; 5. Preserving Bukit China: The Cultural Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Melaka's Chinese Cemetery / Carolyn L. Cartier

"Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese migrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Qiaopi had numerous functions and dimensions, ranging from economic and social to cultural and political. In June 2013, the Qiaopi Project was officially registered under UNESCO's "Memory of the World" programme, set up in 1992 because of "a growing awareness of the parlous state of preservation of documentary heritage" in the world. This book presents around one hundred letters from Singapore, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the USA, and Canada, including photographic reproductions of the original letters, transcriptions in Chinese characters, and English translations, where necessary with explanatory notes. Most of the letters collected in Chinese and non-Chinese archives, and in this sourcebook, were products of the Qiaopi system as traditionally defined. A few, especially some to and from North America, especially in the second half of the twentieth century, went through the Post Office, and were not handled by Chinese remittance companies. Not all the letters accompanied remittances."--Publisher's website