TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miles,Steven B.
TI  - Upriver journeys: diaspora and empire in southern China, 1570-1850 
T2  - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series
SN  - 978-0-674-97520-0
U1  - 305.906910951270903 23E
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Chinese--Migrations--History
KW  - Migration, Internal--China--Xi River Region--History
KW  - River life--China--History
KW  - Xi River Region (China)--History
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 297-326; I. Imperial intermediaries: Officials: agents of empire in the upriver frontier, 1570-1740 -- Students: migration and civil examinations, 1570-1760 -- Merchants: commercial networks and state support, 1700-1850 -- II. Diasporic families: Husbands and wives in the West River basin -- Upriver settlers and delta lineages
N2  - "Traces journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, one of the world's great river systems, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, presenting arguments about the relationship between diaspora and empire in an upriver frontier and the role of migration in sustaining families and lineages in what would become a global diaspora"--
ER  -