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Dear China(First)
Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 (Paperback)
by Hong Liu, Gregor Benton, Gungwu Wang
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29843-9, ISBN: 0-520-29843-8

"Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.  Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristi ..."






Dear China(1st Edition)
Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980
by Gregor Benton, Hong Liu, Gungwu Wang
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29841-5, ISBN: 0-520-29841-1

"Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics ..."






Global History And Migrations(1st Edition)
by Gungwu Wang
Hardcover, 319 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-31597-9, ISBN: 0-367-31597-1

"Humans have been on the move for millennia. They have done so slowly as well as quickly, sometimes involuntarily, sometimes transported by force, often relocated at great cost in lives, but they have always moved. Over the centuries, improved transportation has eased the movement, even in the face of man-made or natural obstacles. But in modern tim"






Global History And Migrations
by Gungwu Wang
320 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-429-97982-8, ISBN: 0-429-97982-7

"St. Petersburg: V. Kirpbayma, 1901, 2 vols.; and Willfried Spohn, Weltmarktkonkurrenz und Industrialisierung Deutsch Lands 1870–1914, Berlin: Olle & Wolter, 1977. 6. Data compiled from Ferenczi and Willcox, International Migrations, I, pp. 167–186, 384–389, and 294–296; II, pp. 219–230 and 387; Nugent, Crossings, p. 15; Gould, “European Inter-Continental Emigration: The Road Home,” pp. 108– 110; Karl M. Bolte, Dieter Kappe, and Jos ..."






The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
The Chinese Overseas : From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy
by Gungwu Wang
160 Pages, Published 2009 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04481-4, ISBN: 0-674-04481-9

"The peoples, tribes, and tribal groups in southern and southwest China are clustered under the name of Yue. Some were on the verge of statehood before the Qin unification during the third century B.C. They have been recently ... Until these peoples can be accurately identified, most scholars fall back on the traditional designation for them as the Baiyue, “Hundred Yue. ... Those who are still distinct from the Han Chinese are the Y ..."






The Chinese Overseas(Updated)
From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)
by Gungwu Wang
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Harvard University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00986-8, ISBN: 0-674-00986-X

"The Chinese overseas now number 25 to 30 million, yet the 2,000-year history of Chinese attempts to venture abroad and the underlying values affecting that migration have never before been presented in a broad overview. Despite centuries of prohibition against leaving the land and traveling and settling overseas, the "earthbound" Chinese--first traders, then peasants and workers--eventually found new sources of livelihood abroad. The pr ..."






Hong Kong's Transition a Decade After the Deal
by Gungwu Wang, Siu-Lun Wong, Sze Yuen Chung
Paperback, 163 Pages, Published 1997 by Oxford University Press, Hong Kong
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-587401-3, ISBN: 0-19-587401-3






Community and Nation
China, Southeast Asia and Australia (Southeast Asia Publications Series)
by Gungwu Wang
Paperback, 359 Pages, Published 1992 by Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN-13: 978-1-86373-372-4, ISBN: 1-86373-372-8






SOCIETY AND THE WRITER
ESSAYS ON LITERATURE IN MODERN ASIA.
by Gungwu Wang, David Marr, M. Guerrero
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 1981 by Research School Of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
ISBN-13: 978-0-909596-69-9, ISBN: 0-909596-69-7






Mineral Economics and Basic Industries in Asia
by Ko Pen Wang, Edmond Chin, Gungwu Wang, Kung-Ping Wang
Hardcover, 358 Pages, Published 1978 by Westview Pr (Short Disc)
ISBN-13: 978-0-89158-411-7, ISBN: 0-89158-411-0






China and the World Since 1949
by Gungwu Wang
Hardcover, Published 1977 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-13353-5, ISBN: 0-312-13353-7






China and the World Since 1949(1st Edition)
The Impact of Independence, Modernity and Revolution (Making of the Twentieth Century)
by Gungwu Wang
Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 1977 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-15593-6, ISBN: 0-333-15593-9

"This is the first history of post-1949 China which brings into juxtaposition the themes of independence, modernity and revolution. New China's international relations are governed by its determination to achieve both the fullest possible degree of independence and also the highest level of modernization ít can afford, in ways that will not come into conflict with its Maoist version of a global Marxist-Leninist revolution. The ..."






Mineral resources and basic industries in the People's Republic of China
by K. P. Wang, Gungwu Wang
211 Pages, Published 1977 by Westview Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89158-204-5, ISBN: 0-89158-204-5






The Making of the 20th Century
China and the World since Nineteen Forty-Nine : The Impact of Independence, Modernity and Revolution
by Gungwu Wang
Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1977 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-13352-8, ISBN: 0-312-13352-9






China and the World Since 1949
The Impact of Independence, Modernity and Revolution (Making of the Twentieth Century)
by Gungwu Wang
Hardcover, 201 Pages, Published 1977 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-15592-9, ISBN: 0-333-15592-0






Orientalism in Sinology(Updated)
(Paperback)
by Adrian Chan, Gungwu Wang, Gerald Chan
Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2010 by Academica Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-936320-00-4, ISBN: 1-936320-00-2

"ORIENTALISM in SINOLOGY Description: This research monograph is a major contribution to Chinese Studies especially in area studies of comparative religion, Chinese Rhetoric, History and translation (esp. Chinese to English). Professor Chan, using questions first raised in Edward Said s ORIENTALISM, begins with a close examination of the intellectual production of Christian missionaries to the Middle Kingdom in the 16th and 17th ce ..."






Orientalism in Sinology(Updated)
by Adrian Chan, Gungwu Wang
Library, 264 Pages, Published 2009 by Academica Press,Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-933146-61-4, ISBN: 1-933146-61-3

"ORIENTALISM in SINOLOGY Description: This research monograph is a major contribution to Chinese Studies especially in area studies of comparative religion, Chinese Rhetoric, History and translation (esp. Chinese to English). Professor Chan, using questions first raised in Edward Said s ORIENTALISM, begins with a close examination of the intellectual production of Christian missionaries to the Middle Kingdom in the 16th and 17th centurie ..."






Global History And Migrations
(Global History Series)
by Gungwu Wang
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Westview Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3123-2, ISBN: 0-8133-3123-4

"Humans have been on the move for millennia. They have done so slowly as well as quickly, sometimes involuntarily, sometimes transported by force, often relocated at great cost in lives, but they have always moved. Over the centuries, improved transportation has eased the movement, even in the face of man-made or natural obstacles. But in modern times, migration has accelerated and its reach has become truly global.Whether it is Turkish ..."






Iraq War
(Paperback)
by Gungwu Wang
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2003 by Global Publishing Company Inc
ISBN-13: 978-1-879771-89-5, ISBN: 1-879771-89-6






Future of China
by Gungwu Wang
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1990 by World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-9625118-1-3, ISBN: 0-9625118-1-1

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