From the Hills of China to the Streets of Europe: Southern Zhejiangnese Emigration in the Twentieth Century

Lieu : Salle Sacy à l'INALCO, 2 rue de Lille - 75007 Paris

 

Intervenant :

Dr. Xiaoxuan WANG, chercheur invité à l'Ifrae
Dr. Xiaoxuan WANG is a social historian of modern China. He is broadly interested in the question of how China’s modern encounter with the West and how reforms and revolutions have transformed the ways that ordinary Chinese people live, move, organize and interact with the state. His first book, "Maoism and Grassroots Religion", was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. His latest project concerns the history of Chinese emigration in the twentieth century.

 

Discussion :

Yu-Sion LIVE, maître de conférence, Université de la Réunion

 

Résumé :

Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang will present his ongoing project on the formation of European Chinese communities, focusing on people of southern Zhejiang origin who make up the lion’s share of Chinese in continental Europe today. The experience of European Chinese, especially its history, has been far less explored than that of Chinese in Southeast Asia or America.

In spite of the fact that Southern Zhejiang European communities deploys efforts to construct a transnational life beyond the nation-state, what role does the Chinese state, i.e. the Republican and PRC governments, play in their transnationalism?  The project hopes to provide a unique perspective on the intricate relations between transnationalism, localism and the state that have made and continue to make the Chinese overseas in the modern day.

 

 

 

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Responsables scientifiques : Hui-yeon Kim (Ifrae, Inalco), Ya-Han Chuang (Sciences Po CERI), Juan Du (CY Université et Ifrae Inalco), Hélène Le Bail (CNRS Sciences Po CERI et Ifrae Inalco)
Contact : hui-yeon.kim@inalco.fr