International Links and the Socioeconomic Development of Rural China

Woon, Yuen-fong

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“…The solidarity and functioning of these 'old-fashion' organisations are supposed to be undermined by the 'new' forces of globalisation. However, recent studies have revealed that the Chinese diaspora are able to reorganise their voluntary associations to meet the challenges of globalisation (Woon, 1990;Liu, 1998). In a process known as transnationalism, Chinese diaspora have managed to build effective transnational business networks that stretch from their place of origin ( giaoxiang) to their place of settlement (Lever-Tracy, Ip and Tracy, 1996;Smart and Smart, 1998).…”

Section: Spatial Mobility Under Globalisationmentioning

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Hong Kong and the globalisation of the Chinese diaspora: a geographical perspective

Lin

2002

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This study examines the processes of spatial restructuring in the Hong Kong–South China region. The paper analyses urban‐rural interaction in a historical and transnational context. Based on detailed census data collected in 1961 and 1996, this study traces the origins of the Hongkongers and maps out their spatial distribution according to their native place identities. The heightened population movement between the rural hinterland in the South China region and the Hong Kong metropolis is inseparable from territorial organisation on the Chinese mainland. The great spatial mobility demonstrated by the Hongkongers, or, their ‘refugee mentality’ as it is known, is found to be deeply rooted in their marginal sub‐ethnic identity in the nation. A systematic analysis of spatial data reveals that the diasporic landscape developed in Hong Kong has been polarised by the élite English and Shanghainese speakers on the one end and the Kejia people on the other end. Despite the processes of globalisation, the great spatial mobility of the Hong Kong sojourners and the diasporic landscape they have created have been effectively shaped by their place‐based ethno‐linguistic identities. If the transnational movement of people is considered an important component of globalisation, then this study reinforces the importance of locality and contests the fashionable notion of globalisation as a ‘placeless’ phenomenon. The seemingly displaced empire of Chinese diaspora capitalism, in which Hong Kong has played a crucial part, has remained grounded by pre‐existing place‐specific conditions.

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Section: Spatial Mobility Under Globalisationmentioning

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Hong Kong and the globalisation of the Chinese diaspora: a geographical perspective

Lin

2002

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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“…Until now, academic work on local Chinese emigrant communities and the return of emigrants have primarily focused on the local socio‐economic effects of remittances and investments (see, e.g., Watson, 1975; Woon, 1989, 1990), on traditional cultural forms such as the lineage structure in Southern China or on moral and social dilemmas related to returning villagers (Watson, 1975; Oxfeld, 2004), and on returned ethnic Chinese refugees ( guiqiao ) from South‐East Asia to designated Overseas Chinese State Farms (Peterson, 2012). In the context of the migrants’ return, emigration areas have as such been more likely to be conceived as static and primarily undergoing change and development due to the influence of dynamic emigrants.…”

Section: New Mobilities By Chinese Descendants To China’s Megacitiesmentioning

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Introduction: New Dynamics of Chinese Migration to Europe

Thunø

2020

International Migration

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This introduction provides a presentation of the articles in this special issue by framing the contributions in the context of new dynamics related to Chinese migration studies and the ongoing discussions of the impact of China’s powerful economic position. The articles offer new empirical insights to develop new understandings of recent migration and mobilities between China and Europe. By focusing on the changing socio‐economic composition of Chinese migrants in Europe towards highly skilled professionals and investors, changes in Chinese entrepreneurship, increasing Chinese political engagement and activism, and new migration from Europe to China by Chinese descendants, these contributions reflect the importance of developing new theories to better grasp the causes and effects of China’s new global economic and political position for Chinese migration. The selected articles identify promising directions for future work on the global discussions of the impact of China as a diaspora state and ensuing policy implications.

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“…In Duanfen, as in other parts of Taishan, out-migration, as opposed to entrepreneurship, is the goal of rural households. The so-called`Overseas Chinese mentality' is obsessed by the possibility of a better life abroad (Johnson and Woon, 1997;Woon, 1990).…”

Section: The Western Delta: Taishan the Overseas Chinese Connectionmentioning

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Rural Development Patterns in Post‐Reform China: The Pearl River Delta Region in the 1990s

Johnson

Woon

1997

Development and Change

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Since the reforms that began in 1979, economic development in China has been marked by four major policy initiatives: the re‐integration of the Chinese economy with the global economy, the decentralization of economic decision making away from the central state to lower levels, and, especially in the coastal regions, the shift away from subsistence agriculture towards rural industrialization and increasing commercialization. In this article, the effects of the reform policies are discussed in the context of the Pearl River delta region, the economic core of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Closely proximate to Hong Kong, with many Overseas Chinese connections, the province was given opportunities to innovate within the new policy option and has been marked by rapid economic growth. The article focuses on the impact of industrialization, commercialization, and globalization in four contrasting areas of the Pearl River delta in the 1980s and 1990s. At a general level, what McGee has called desakota zones have emerged and follow a development process which is similar to that observed in parts of East and Southeast Asia in the 1970s. When examined from the perspective of villages and localities, the blending of government policies, geographical location, and market forces with an array of local social values has resulted in separate and distinctive patterns of development.

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International Links and the Socioeconomic Development of Rural China

Abstract: exists in different versions, but all share one common thesis: economic links between a developing nation and one or more developed nations have been, and will always be, detrimental to the evolution of the former.

Cited by 24 publications

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Hong Kong and the globalisation of the Chinese diaspora: a geographical perspective

Hong Kong and the globalisation of the Chinese diaspora: a geographical perspective

Introduction: New Dynamics of Chinese Migration to Europe

Rural Development Patterns in Post‐Reform China: The Pearl River Delta Region in the 1990s

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