Adam Mckeown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Mckeown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeown |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEOWN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949
This chapter outline the shape and significance of narratives of Chinese migration that start from a transnational or global perspective. It begins with a survey of recent debates over the idea of diaspora, not because diaspora offers the most appropriate vocabulary and approach, but because the contentiousness surrounding its use can highlight many of the issues at stake. The chapter investigates different ways in which a diasporic perspective c…
Migration Control and the Globalization of Borders: China and the United States, 1898–1911
A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600–1900
Social science research on contemporary and historical migration provides tools to link universal understandings of migration processes with local specifics. This chapter uses the CCMR-model to quantify Chinese migration from 1600-1900. East Asia is perhaps the region of the world outside Europe most readily susceptible to such an analysis, both because of relatively accessible data and because forms of mobility were most similar to Europe. Histo…
Movement
How the Box Became Black: Brokers and the Creation of the Free Migrant
Les migrations internationales à l'ère de la mondialisation industrielle, 1840-1940
La première vague de migrations de masse des années 1840 aux années 1930 a été un phénomène à l'échelle du globe, encastré dans une économie industrielle en pleine mondialisation. Néanmoins une bonne partie de cette mobilité est tombée dans l'oubli, à l'exception des migrations transatlantiques. Accorder davantage d'attention à l'extension mondiale de la mobilité peut aider les historiens à comprendre les multiples formes des migrations de travai…
The Social Life of Chinese Labor
Was Chinese labor a commodity? This question should be hard to avoid in a discussion of Chinese traders and commodities, because the mobilization and exchange of labor were indispensable aspects of expanding markets and trade. Not only were migrant laborers important producers, consumers, and transporters of goods, but the trade in labor itself was a major source of profit for many merchants. But thinking about labor as a commodity quickly raises…
A World Made Many: Integration And Segregation In Global Migration, 1840–1940
Through the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (as well as through caravan routes), the Indian Ocean was linked to the Mediterranean, in the East through the South China, Java, and Timor Seas to the Pacific Ocean and, via the route around Cape Horn, the Atlantic could be reached. The circulation of peoples, goods, and ideas that took place within the Indian Ocean system has prompted Sugata Bose to call it an interregional arena. Abolition succeeded muc…
Different transitions: Comparing China and Europe, 1600–1900
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Chinese emigration in global context, 1850–1940
Chinese emigration was part of the global wave of mass migration in the nineteenth century. After establishing the main quantities, sources, destinations, and timing of emigration, this article analyses trends in return and female migration, two quantifiable phenomena that are often said to distinguish Chinese from other migrations. These trends are compared between different flows of Chinese migration, both overseas and to Manchuria, and with no…
Regionalizing World Migration
An insistence on the broad similarities and structural linkages of migrations across the globe since the 1840s is important because it can clear the ground for more effective comparisons. Only after questioning the a priori distinction that privileges “modern” transatlantic migrations as categorically distinct from those in the rest of the world can we begin to understand each migrant and migrant flow as emerging from a distinct nexus of global, …
Periodizing Globalization
Journal Article Periodizing Globalization Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Adam McKeown is an Associate Professor of the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University in New York. He has recently completed a book manuscript, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834–1930 (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), about the global standardization of identity documentation and migration control …
Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era
Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era Get access Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era. Edited by Chan Sucheng. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. xvi + 294 pp. Tables, notes, index. $23.95, paper.) Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Columbia University Search for other w…
Humanist Discourse and the Idea of the Learned Painter
Humanist Discourse and the Idea of the Learned Painter
(2006). Humanist Discourse and the Idea of the Learned Painter. Exemplaria: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 367-385
Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History
The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each highlights the very general theme of cross-cultural interaction. Although they draw heavily on area studies, the contributors seek to put previously separat…
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965
Global Migration, 1846–1940
Global Migration, 1846–1940* Adam McKeown Mass long-distance migrations have been an important part of modern world history, but historians have been slow to acknowledge their global extent. Movement across the Atlantic is recognized as a critical aspect of industrialization and expansion into American frontiers, but migrations that were part of similar demographic and economic transformations in north and southeast Asia are largely ignored. Asia…
Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China
Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Adam McKeown is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii, 1900–1936 (2001), “From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: A Global History of Diasporic Chinese Business,” Diaspora 9 (2000), and “Conceptualizing Chinese D…
Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China
Holding up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92
Journal Article Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii, 330 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-252-02631-4.) Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Columbia UniversityNew York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 719–720, https://d…
Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936
Beyond Binary Histories: Re-Imagining Eurasia to c. 1830
Ethnographies of Chinese Transnationalism
Ethnographies of Chinese Transnationalism Adam McKeown Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Madeline Y. Hsu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. Kuah Khun Eng. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000. "We Need Two Worlds": Chinese Immigrant Associations in a Western Society. Li Minghuan. Amsterdam: University of…
Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949
Each of these epigrams is from an exemplary work of primary research. While not entirely exclusive-potential for overlap appears in the ideas of "mutual development" and "transfer" of culture-they each exemplify different research agendas that result in competing narratives of Chinese migration. Sucheng Chan's work is part of a larger project of contemporary Asian American studies to incorporate Chinese as important actors in American history. It…
How the Box Became Black: Brokers and the Creation of the Free Migrant
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Chinese emigration in global context, 1850–1940
Chinese emigration was part of the global wave of mass migration in the nineteenth century. After establishing the main quantities, sources, destinations, and timing of emigration, this article analyses trends in return and female migration, two quantifiable phenomena that are often said to distinguish Chinese from other migrations. These trends are compared between different flows of Chinese migration, both overseas and to Manchuria, and with no…
Periodizing Globalization
Journal Article Periodizing Globalization Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Adam McKeown is an Associate Professor of the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University in New York. He has recently completed a book manuscript, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834–1930 (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), about the global standardization of identity documentation and migration control …
Inmigración china al Perú , 1904-1937: Exclusión y negociación
No presenta resumen
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965
Les migrations internationales à l'ère de la mondialisation industrielle, 1840-1940
La première vague de migrations de masse des années 1840 aux années 1930 a été un phénomène à l'échelle du globe, encastré dans une économie industrielle en pleine mondialisation. Néanmoins une bonne partie de cette mobilité est tombée dans l'oubli, à l'exception des migrations transatlantiques. Accorder davantage d'attention à l'extension mondiale de la mobilité peut aider les historiens à comprendre les multiples formes des migrations de travai…
Regionalizing World Migration
An insistence on the broad similarities and structural linkages of migrations across the globe since the 1840s is important because it can clear the ground for more effective comparisons. Only after questioning the a priori distinction that privileges “modern” transatlantic migrations as categorically distinct from those in the rest of the world can we begin to understand each migrant and migrant flow as emerging from a distinct nexus of global, …
From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: A Global History of Diasporic Chinese Business
Diaspora 9:3 2000 From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: A Global History of Diasporic Chinese Business1 Adam McKeown Columbia University The image of the Chinese businessman pervades the contemporary Asia-Pacific. Whether seen as the cutting edge of a new Asian capitalism, as the source of unsound practices that precipitated the crash of 1997, or as small-scale opportunists symbiotic to the primal creative force oflarge transnational corporations, dias…
Inmigración china al Perú , 1904-1937: Exclusión y negociación
No presenta resumen
Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949
Each of these epigrams is from an exemplary work of primary research. While not entirely exclusive-potential for overlap appears in the ideas of "mutual development" and "transfer" of culture-they each exemplify different research agendas that result in competing narratives of Chinese migration. Sucheng Chan's work is part of a larger project of contemporary Asian American studies to incorporate Chinese as important actors in American history. It…
From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: A Global History of Diasporic Chinese Business
Diaspora 9:3 2000 From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: A Global History of Diasporic Chinese Business1 Adam McKeown Columbia University The image of the Chinese businessman pervades the contemporary Asia-Pacific. Whether seen as the cutting edge of a new Asian capitalism, as the source of unsound practices that precipitated the crash of 1997, or as small-scale opportunists symbiotic to the primal creative force oflarge transnational corporations, dias…
Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936
Beyond Binary Histories: Re-Imagining Eurasia to c. 1830
Ethnographies of Chinese Transnationalism
Ethnographies of Chinese Transnationalism Adam McKeown Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Madeline Y. Hsu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China. Kuah Khun Eng. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000. "We Need Two Worlds": Chinese Immigrant Associations in a Western Society. Li Minghuan. Amsterdam: University of…
Holding up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92
Journal Article Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948–92. By Xiaolan Bao. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xviii, 330 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-252-02631-4.) Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Columbia UniversityNew York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 719–720, https://d…
Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China
Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Adam McKeown is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii, 1900–1936 (2001), “From Opium Farmer to Astronaut: A Global History of Diasporic Chinese Business,” Diaspora 9 (2000), and “Conceptualizing Chinese D…
Ritualization of Regulation: The Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China
Global Migration, 1846–1940
Global Migration, 1846–1940* Adam McKeown Mass long-distance migrations have been an important part of modern world history, but historians have been slow to acknowledge their global extent. Movement across the Atlantic is recognized as a critical aspect of industrialization and expansion into American frontiers, but migrations that were part of similar demographic and economic transformations in north and southeast Asia are largely ignored. Asia…
Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History
The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each highlights the very general theme of cross-cultural interaction. Although they draw heavily on area studies, the contributors seek to put previously separat…
Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965
Humanist Discourse and the Idea of the Learned Painter
Humanist Discourse and the Idea of the Learned Painter
(2006). Humanist Discourse and the Idea of the Learned Painter. Exemplaria: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 367-385
Regionalizing World Migration
An insistence on the broad similarities and structural linkages of migrations across the globe since the 1840s is important because it can clear the ground for more effective comparisons. Only after questioning the a priori distinction that privileges “modern” transatlantic migrations as categorically distinct from those in the rest of the world can we begin to understand each migrant and migrant flow as emerging from a distinct nexus of global, …
Periodizing Globalization
Journal Article Periodizing Globalization Get access Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Adam McKeown is an Associate Professor of the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University in New York. He has recently completed a book manuscript, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834–1930 (Columbia University Press, forthcoming), about the global standardization of identity documentation and migration control …
Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era
Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era Get access Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era. Edited by Chan Sucheng. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. xvi + 294 pp. Tables, notes, index. $23.95, paper.) Adam McKeown Adam McKeown Columbia University Search for other w…
Chinese emigration in global context, 1850–1940
Chinese emigration was part of the global wave of mass migration in the nineteenth century. After establishing the main quantities, sources, destinations, and timing of emigration, this article analyses trends in return and female migration, two quantifiable phenomena that are often said to distinguish Chinese from other migrations. These trends are compared between different flows of Chinese migration, both overseas and to Manchuria, and with no…
The Social Life of Chinese Labor
Was Chinese labor a commodity? This question should be hard to avoid in a discussion of Chinese traders and commodities, because the mobilization and exchange of labor were indispensable aspects of expanding markets and trade. Not only were migrant laborers important producers, consumers, and transporters of goods, but the trade in labor itself was a major source of profit for many merchants. But thinking about labor as a commodity quickly raises…
A World Made Many: Integration And Segregation In Global Migration, 1840–1940
Through the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (as well as through caravan routes), the Indian Ocean was linked to the Mediterranean, in the East through the South China, Java, and Timor Seas to the Pacific Ocean and, via the route around Cape Horn, the Atlantic could be reached. The circulation of peoples, goods, and ideas that took place within the Indian Ocean system has prompted Sugata Bose to call it an interregional arena. Abolition succeeded muc…
Different transitions: Comparing China and Europe, 1600–1900
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
How the Box Became Black: Brokers and the Creation of the Free Migrant
Les migrations internationales à l'ère de la mondialisation industrielle, 1840-1940
La première vague de migrations de masse des années 1840 aux années 1930 a été un phénomène à l'échelle du globe, encastré dans une économie industrielle en pleine mondialisation. Néanmoins une bonne partie de cette mobilité est tombée dans l'oubli, à l'exception des migrations transatlantiques. Accorder davantage d'attention à l'extension mondiale de la mobilité peut aider les historiens à comprendre les multiples formes des migrations de travai…
A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600–1900
Social science research on contemporary and historical migration provides tools to link universal understandings of migration processes with local specifics. This chapter uses the CCMR-model to quantify Chinese migration from 1600-1900. East Asia is perhaps the region of the world outside Europe most readily susceptible to such an analysis, both because of relatively accessible data and because forms of mobility were most similar to Europe. Histo…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · History (14 works) · Law (13 works) · China (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works)