Chinese Overseas

The Particular and the General

Bibliographic Data

ID6153296
AuthorsCharles A Coppel (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume8
Issue1
Pages1-10
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Chinese Overseas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1793-0391 • E-ISSN: 1793-2548
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/179325412x634283
OpenAlexW2076713541
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

The study of Chinese overseas is part of the study of humanity. To make it manageable, we have to reduce its scope. To make it meaningful, we have to use generalizations or abstract terms which encapsulate generalizations. Like human beings as a whole, the Chinese overseas are very heterogeneous, but we believe that somehow they are a meaningful subject of scholarly study. The paper explores some of the dilemmas of the general and the particular in the history of the peranakan Chinese of Java, themselves a far from homogeneous group

Asian studies · China · Epistemology · History of China · Homogeneous · Humanity · Political science · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Subject (documents · World Wide Web · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Mathematics · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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