{"product_id":"dear-china-gregor-benton-9780520298415","title":"Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820a 1980","description":"\u003ci\u003eQiaopi\u003c\/i\u003e is one of several names given to the \"silver letters\" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear China\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length study in English of \u003ci\u003eqiaopi \u003c\/i\u003eand of the origins, structure, and operations of the \u003ci\u003eqiaopi \u003c\/i\u003etrade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of \u003ci\u003eqiaopi\u003c\/i\u003e, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. \u003ci\u003eDear China\u003c\/i\u003e contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregor Benton, Hong Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520298411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520298415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Gregor Benton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946703585535,"sku":"9780520298415","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_978637d0-b47f-4291-8caf-18e2a7945571.jpg?v=1681514653","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dear-china-gregor-benton-9780520298415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}