Author: BENTON, GREGOR & HANS VERMEULEN (EDITORS),
Title: De Chinezen. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Muiderberg, Coutinho, 1987. 8°. Original stiff thin coloured and illustrated wrappers. 195pp. Captioned monochrome illustrations on plates, facsims. after original old photographs and archivalia, appendices (complarative tables), comparative tables in text, bibliography, 2 sketch-maps on a plate: Eastern China, Hong Kong incl. New Territories, list of useful addresses, synopsis on lower outer covertable of contents. Dutch language scholarly investigation into the socio-economic, political and cultural position of migrant chinese ethnic minority group in the Netherlands, e.g.: Migrants directly from Eastern China and Hong Kong (incl. New Territories), migrant chinese from the former Dutch colony of Indonesia, chinese youths from the former dutch territory of Surinam (Guyanas), and the Hoa, chinese refugees from Vietnam. Assesments are given about backrounds of chinese migration to the Netherlands from a historic point of view, Chinese politics to migrant chinese, Man-Lineage, preservation of chinese culture in a foreign country. Contributions by Gregor Benton, Bart Zeven, Frank Pieke (et.al.). After Van Heek's fundamental study (1938) an important modern study with hitherto unpublished data. Very fine copy.

Keywords: overseaschinese migrants society economy ethnicity sociology culture heritage minoritygroup research assessment history lineage hoa vietnam refugees indonesia china hongkong