Price and Promise of Specialness
The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1959
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Word Count
69,500 words, Guess
Page Count
278 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL38047894M
- ISBN-139789004400702
- OCLC Control Number1096243502
- Library of Congress Control Number2019014382
Classifications
- LCCJV8701.L56 2019
Description
In The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People's Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to 'overseas Chinese affairs' in New China's first decade as a function of a larger political economy. Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference.
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