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Chinese diaspora charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949 by John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip ed. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850-1949 sheds new light on the history of charity among Chinese overseas and its place in the history of charity in China and in the wider history of global philanthropy. It finds that diaspora charity, besides serving traditional functions of helping the sick and destitute and supporting development in China, helped to build trust among dispersed hometown networks while challenging color boundaries in host societies by contributing to wider social causes. The book shows that charitable activities among the "Gold Rush" communities of the Pacific rim--a loosely integrated emigre network from Guangdong Province perhaps better known for its business acumen and hard work among English-speaking settler societies in North America and Australasia--also led the way with social innovations that helped to shape modern charity in China. Fitzgerald and Yip's volume demonstrates that charity lay at the heart of community life among Chinese communities overseas. From remittances accompanying letters to contributions to benevolent organizations, emigrants transferred funds in many different ways to meet urgent requirements such as disaster rel
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- Author
- John Fitzgerald and Hon-ming Yip ed.
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789888528264
- Category
- nonfiction