Beyond Borders
Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma
Author(s)
Chang, Wen-Chin
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101469Language
EnglishAbstract
The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a “back door” to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to Burma. Through a personal narrative approach, Beyond Borders is the first ethnography to focus on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants (composed of both Yunnanese Han and Muslims) who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China.
Keywords
History; Myanmar; Taiwan; Taunggyi; Thailand; YunnanDOI
10.7591/cornell/9780801453311.001.0001ISBN
9780801479670;9780801454516;9780801454509OCN
904979076Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/Publication date and place
Ithaca, NY, 2014-12-04Classification
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples