Tan Chee-Beng is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Introduction: Chinese Overseas, China, Transnational Networks, and Homelands Part 1: Transformation in Ancestral Homeland 1. Comings and Goings: Pearl River Delta Identities in an Era of Change and Transformation 2. Transforming an Old Qiaoxiang: Impacts of the Chinese Diaspora on Panyu, 1978–2000 Part 2: Ethnic Chinese, China and Transnational Networks 3. The Shishan Ye People in Malaysia and the Ancestral Homeland in China 4. Lukchin: Chinese Thai Transnational Bridge Builders 5. Ethnic Homeland and Chinese Americans: Conceiving a Transnational Political Network 6. The Comintern and Chinese Overseas Part 3: Diversity of Settlements and Homelands 7. Qiaoxiang and the Diversity of Chinese Settlements in Australia and New Zealand 8. A Chinese Diasporic Community in Northern Thailand: Contested Political Loyalty and Shifting Ethnicity 9. The Chinese of Trinidad and Tobago: Mobility, Modernity, and Assimilation During and After Colonialism

Tan Chee-Beng is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Introduction: Chinese Overseas, China, Transnational Networks, and Homelands Part 1: Transformation in Ancestral Homeland 1. Comings and Goings: Pearl River Delta Identities in an Era of Change and Transformation 2. Transforming an Old Qiaoxiang: Impacts of the Chinese Diaspora on Panyu, 1978–2000 Part 2: Ethnic Chinese, China and Transnational Networks 3. The Shishan Ye People in Malaysia and the Ancestral Homeland in China 4. Lukchin: Chinese Thai Transnational Bridge Builders 5. Ethnic Homeland and Chinese Americans: Conceiving a Transnational Political Network 6. The Comintern and Chinese Overseas Part 3: Diversity of Settlements and Homelands 7. Qiaoxiang and the Diversity of Chinese Settlements in Australia and New Zealand 8. A Chinese Diasporic Community in Northern Thailand: Contested Political Loyalty and Shifting Ethnicity 9. The Chinese of Trinidad and Tobago: Mobility, Modernity, and Assimilation During and After Colonialism

Tan Chee-Beng is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Introduction: Chinese Overseas, China, Transnational Networks, and Homelands Part 1: Transformation in Ancestral Homeland 1. Comings and Goings: Pearl River Delta Identities in an Era of Change and Transformation 2. Transforming an Old Qiaoxiang: Impacts of the Chinese Diaspora on Panyu, 1978–2000 Part 2: Ethnic Chinese, China and Transnational Networks 3. The Shishan Ye People in Malaysia and the Ancestral Homeland in China 4. Lukchin: Chinese Thai Transnational Bridge Builders 5. Ethnic Homeland and Chinese Americans: Conceiving a Transnational Political Network 6. The Comintern and Chinese Overseas Part 3: Diversity of Settlements and Homelands 7. Qiaoxiang and the Diversity of Chinese Settlements in Australia and New Zealand 8. A Chinese Diasporic Community in Northern Thailand: Contested Political Loyalty and Shifting Ethnicity 9. The Chinese of Trinidad and Tobago: Mobility, Modernity, and Assimilation During and After Colonialism