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In it, Ong Soon Keong draws upon a rich body of published materials in Chinese and English to argue that overseas Chinese migration, especially to Southeast Asia, profoundly shaped the development of Xiamen from the mid-19 SP th sp century to the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938. Observers in the 1930s may have labeled Xiamen "Little Shanghai" (p. 128), but as Ong demonstrates in Chapter 2, the modernizing trajectories of Xiamen and its northern treaty-port counterpart quickly diverged. Keong, Ong Soon Coming home to a foreign country: Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843-1938, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2021; 340 pp.; ISBN: 9781501756184, $64.95 I Coming Home to a Foreign Country i is the first book-length scholarly history on Xiamen (Amoy) to be published in English since Ng Chin-keong's in [4], and the only such work on the southern Fujianese metropolis during the treaty port era that followed the First Opium War (1839-42). [Extracted from the article] |
