HISTORIES OF MODERN MIGRATION IN EAST ASIA: STUDIES OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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2017-07
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<jats:p>In recent historical studies of modern East Asia, the issue of migration has received increased scholarly attention. This article traces recent historiographical and methodological trends by analyzing influential English-language works on modern East Asian migrations in the first half of the twentieth century. Modern East Asian migrations during this period present dynamic and heterogeneous features as results of modern social transformations, such as the development of global capitalism, national and global economic integration, the emergence of new transportation and communication technology, and the expansion and collapse of the Japanese empire. Accordingly, the historical works on modern East Asian migrations we examine display a variety of historiographical and theoretical approaches. Specifically, this article underscores important trends or comparable emphases in these studies, including the growing scholarly interest in transnational/regional border crossing movements, migrants’ subject formations in the new environments, and the methodological interest in the role of culture, political economy, and the environment. Thus this article offers a reflective overview of the ongoing development of migration studies centering on modern East Asia.</jats:p>
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Hoshino, Noriaki, and Qian Zhu (2017). HISTORIES OF MODERN MIGRATION IN EAST ASIA: STUDIES OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. International Journal of Asian Studies, 14(2). pp. 171–195. 10.1017/s1479591417000018 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/22371.
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Qian Zhu
I am holding a Ph.D in History from New York University. As a historian of modern China and a theorist of everyday life, my research is on the intellectual history of China in the late 19th century and 20th century. I am particularly interested in how Chinese non-Marxist leftists understood everyday life and conceptualized it in regards of human emancipation, modernization, democracy and mass politics in the early 20th century. My research projects include Chinese feminism, leftism, and new village movement in the 20th century China. Beyond my specific field of modern China, I am working through feminism and gender, cultural politics, the theory of everyday life, urban studies and labor history. My publications include women's singleness in China, histories of migration in East Asia in the first half of the 20th century, and mass education movement in the 1930s China. My book manuscript addresses intellectual conceptualization of new life and the new life movement in China and how the social movement responded to the global capitalism, leftism and the Chinese revolution seeking for anti-fascism, anti-colonialism, democracy and the nation-state building in the first half of the 20th century in China and in Southeast Asia. My second book project focuses on the new village movement and how it related to the state policy of urbanization, governance, citizenship and how it helped us to understand socialist and post-socialism urbanism in 20th century China.
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