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Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980, written by Gregor Benton and Hong Liu

In: Journal of Chinese Overseas
Author: Michael Williamshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3913-98971
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  • 1 Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
Online Publication Date:
18 Mar 2022
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Gregor Benton and Hong Liu. Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018.

Everyone who knows anything about the “Chinese Diaspora” or “Overseas Chinese”, particularly in their 19th or early 20th century manifestations, knows that the sending of remittances via letter (qiaopi) was a vital element in the lives of those who constitute these historical categories. Yet no matter what a reader of Dear China might think they know at the beginning, by the end of their perusal of this intensively researched and wide-ranging work they will know
Title:
Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980, written by Gregor Benton and Hong Liu
Article Type:
Book Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/17932548-12341461
Language:
English
Pages:
195–198
In:
Journal of Chinese Overseas
In:
Volume 18: Issue 1
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1793-2548
Print ISSN:
1793-0391
Subjects:
China, Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Social Sciences, Chinese History, History

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