Shelly Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelly Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway by Selda Altan
Altan’s new book is an imaginative study of how Chinese railroad workers in the Yunnan-Indochina borderlands helped build the modern world. It introduces a new direction in Chinese labor history that takes us away from coastal treaty ports into the hinterland, where European colonialism was pushing north from Southeast Asia into southwestern China. By focusing on the French-led construction of the Yunnan-Indochina Railway in the early 1900s, the …
Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938
Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
In Diaspora's Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of "diaspora moments"-a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come into tension with local, national, and global ones-to map the multiple historical geographies in which the Chinese homeland and diaspora e…
M ichael W illiams . Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949
In Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949, the Australia-based historian Michael Williams proposes “a qiaoxiang perspective” on the history of Chinese migrations, one that he argues has received scant attention in a scholarship still deeply set in nation-based narratives. Choosing the Longdu district of Zhongshan county in China’s Pearl River Delta as case study, Williams maps out its links with California, …
K aren M. T eoh . Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s–1960s
Centering on educated Chinese women who lived in British Malaya and Singapore, Karen M. Teoh’s Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s–1960s, breaks new important ground in the historical study of the overseas Chinese. Not only does this book depart from the conventional focus on male mobility, but it also rejects tired assumptions of in-betweenness or a divided sense of belonging abou…
Diaspora’s Homeland
Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War . By Laura Madokoro
Recently refugees have been at the epicenter of intense political, scholarly, and popular discussions. Grounded in the Cold War period, Laura Madokoro’s new study of Chinese migrants is not only timely, but also successful in showing how Asian refugees emerged as a social group, a humanitarian agenda, and a political problem for historically white settler nations. These encounters have left palpable effects on the present, argues Madokoro. Contra…
The Case for Diaspora: A Temporal Approach to the Chinese Experience
This article revisits the criticisms of "diaspora" by Wang Gungwu, Ien Ang, and Shu-mei Shih, and urges a return to the concept with an attention to temporality. Focusing on the story of Lim Boon Keng (1869-1957)-an Edinburgh-educatedbabaChinese who led a Confucian revival in Singapore in the 1890s, clashed with May Fourth writer Lu Xun in China in the 1920s, and has been celebrated since the 1990s-this article argues that diaspora is less a coll…
The Disobedient Diaspora: Overseas Chinese Students in Mao’s China, 1958-66不歸順的流散者: 僑生在毛澤東時代中國 (1958-66)
Between 1950 and 1966, about 60,000 overseas Chinese youth, officially known as qiaosheng , entered the People’s Republic of China ( prc ) as students and refugees from Southeast Asia. In the state archival record, qiaosheng appeared collectively “disobedient” to socialism, first cast as “capitalist” during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and later as a “two-faced” threat during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Not to be taken as face value,…
Claiming America: Constructing Chinese-American Identities during the Exclusion Era
Preface Part I. The Immigrant Generation 1. Cultural Defenders and Brokers: Chinese Responses to the Anti-Chinese Movement K. Scott Wong 2. The Origins of the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League Quingsong Zhang 3.Exercise Your Sacred The Experience of New York's Chinese Laundrymen in Practicing Democracy Renqiu Yu Part II. The American-born Generations 4. Fighting for Their American Rights: A Histor…
The Case for Diaspora: A Temporal Approach to the Chinese Experience
This article revisits the criticisms of "diaspora" by Wang Gungwu, Ien Ang, and Shu-mei Shih, and urges a return to the concept with an attention to temporality. Focusing on the story of Lim Boon Keng (1869-1957)-an Edinburgh-educatedbabaChinese who led a Confucian revival in Singapore in the 1890s, clashed with May Fourth writer Lu Xun in China in the 1920s, and has been celebrated since the 1990s-this article argues that diaspora is less a coll…
The Disobedient Diaspora: Overseas Chinese Students in Mao’s China, 1958-66不歸順的流散者: 僑生在毛澤東時代中國 (1958-66)
Between 1950 and 1966, about 60,000 overseas Chinese youth, officially known as qiaosheng , entered the People’s Republic of China ( prc ) as students and refugees from Southeast Asia. In the state archival record, qiaosheng appeared collectively “disobedient” to socialism, first cast as “capitalist” during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and later as a “two-faced” threat during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Not to be taken as face value,…
Claiming America: Constructing Chinese-American Identities during the Exclusion Era
Preface Part I. The Immigrant Generation 1. Cultural Defenders and Brokers: Chinese Responses to the Anti-Chinese Movement K. Scott Wong 2. The Origins of the Chinese Americanization Movement: Wong Chin Foo and the Chinese Equal Rights League Quingsong Zhang 3.Exercise Your Sacred The Experience of New York's Chinese Laundrymen in Practicing Democracy Renqiu Yu Part II. The American-born Generations 4. Fighting for Their American Rights: A Histor…
The Disobedient Diaspora: Overseas Chinese Students in Mao’s China, 1958-66不歸順的流散者: 僑生在毛澤東時代中國 (1958-66)
Between 1950 and 1966, about 60,000 overseas Chinese youth, officially known as qiaosheng , entered the People’s Republic of China ( prc ) as students and refugees from Southeast Asia. In the state archival record, qiaosheng appeared collectively “disobedient” to socialism, first cast as “capitalist” during the Great Leap Forward (1958-60) and later as a “two-faced” threat during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Not to be taken as face value,…
The Case for Diaspora: A Temporal Approach to the Chinese Experience
This article revisits the criticisms of "diaspora" by Wang Gungwu, Ien Ang, and Shu-mei Shih, and urges a return to the concept with an attention to temporality. Focusing on the story of Lim Boon Keng (1869-1957)-an Edinburgh-educatedbabaChinese who led a Confucian revival in Singapore in the 1890s, clashed with May Fourth writer Lu Xun in China in the 1920s, and has been celebrated since the 1990s-this article argues that diaspora is less a coll…
Diaspora’s Homeland
Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War . By Laura Madokoro
Recently refugees have been at the epicenter of intense political, scholarly, and popular discussions. Grounded in the Cold War period, Laura Madokoro’s new study of Chinese migrants is not only timely, but also successful in showing how Asian refugees emerged as a social group, a humanitarian agenda, and a political problem for historically white settler nations. These encounters have left palpable effects on the present, argues Madokoro. Contra…
K aren M. T eoh . Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s–1960s
Centering on educated Chinese women who lived in British Malaya and Singapore, Karen M. Teoh’s Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s–1960s, breaks new important ground in the historical study of the overseas Chinese. Not only does this book depart from the conventional focus on male mobility, but it also rejects tired assumptions of in-betweenness or a divided sense of belonging abou…
Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
In Diaspora's Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of "diaspora moments"-a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant temporalities come into tension with local, national, and global ones-to map the multiple historical geographies in which the Chinese homeland and diaspora e…
M ichael W illiams . Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949
In Returning Home with Glory: Chinese Villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949, the Australia-based historian Michael Williams proposes “a qiaoxiang perspective” on the history of Chinese migrations, one that he argues has received scant attention in a scholarship still deeply set in nation-based narratives. Choosing the Longdu district of Zhongshan county in China’s Pearl River Delta as case study, Williams maps out its links with California, …
Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938
Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway by Selda Altan
Altan’s new book is an imaginative study of how Chinese railroad workers in the Yunnan-Indochina borderlands helped build the modern world. It introduces a new direction in Chinese labor history that takes us away from coastal treaty ports into the hinterland, where European colonialism was pushing north from Southeast Asia into southwestern China. By focusing on the French-led construction of the Yunnan-Indochina Railway in the early 1900s, the …
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · China (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Diaspora (5 works) · History (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)