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Reterritorialization of a Balinese Chinese Community in Quanzhou, Fujian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2009

TAN CHEE-BENG
TAN CHEE-BENG*
Affiliation:
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper is about a special category of guiqiao or ‘returned overseas Chinese’, in southern Fujian. Arriving in China from Bali, Indonesia in 1961, the people were settled in an overseas Chinese farm. The paper illustrates how the re-migrants coped with life in China and how they see themselves today. The returned overseas Chinese reterritorize their Indonesian and Balinese cultural life in China, and they, including the local-born children, speak Balinese and eat Indonesian food. Their experiences provide much food for thought on acculturation, migration and identity as well as on the idea of ‘homeland’.

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Research Article
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , May 2010 , pp. 547 - 566
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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