Post by NZBC on May 24, 2008 23:02:35 GMT 12
www.asienkunde.de/content/zeitschrift_asien/archiv/pdf/Barabantseva96.pdf
Trans-nationalising Chineseness: Overseas Chinese Policies of the PRC's Central Government
Elena BarabantsevaSummaryThis paper examines evolution and the scope of the PRC's policies towards overseas Chinese in the reform period. It analyses the mechanisms for incorporating theoverseas Chinese into the Chinese modernisation strategy and considers how theChinese leadership utilizes the global regimes of migration, trans-nationalism, media, and multiculturalism to affirm the CCP's political legitimacy, to extend China's political standing, to reassert Chinese culture, and to benefit China's economic performance.The argument contends that China's adaptability to the flexible nature of the globaleconomic system signifies a departure from its position as a single territorially-re-stricted unit. It employs a new type of ideology of ethnic nationalism to engage in asingle but territorially dispersed project ensuing in the Chinese nation-state being trans nationalised
Trans-nationalising Chineseness: Overseas Chinese Policies of the PRC's Central Government
Elena BarabantsevaSummaryThis paper examines evolution and the scope of the PRC's policies towards overseas Chinese in the reform period. It analyses the mechanisms for incorporating theoverseas Chinese into the Chinese modernisation strategy and considers how theChinese leadership utilizes the global regimes of migration, trans-nationalism, media, and multiculturalism to affirm the CCP's political legitimacy, to extend China's political standing, to reassert Chinese culture, and to benefit China's economic performance.The argument contends that China's adaptability to the flexible nature of the globaleconomic system signifies a departure from its position as a single territorially-re-stricted unit. It employs a new type of ideology of ethnic nationalism to engage in asingle but territorially dispersed project ensuing in the Chinese nation-state being trans nationalised