Family, Landsmann, and status-group affinity in refugee mobility strategies: the Mongol invasions and the diaspora of Sichuanese elites, 1230-1330
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Some elite families who fled Sichuan, China, during the Mongol invasions were able to reestablish themselves elsewhere through ties based on family, native place and status-group affinity. Following the Mongol invasions from 1231 to 1280, 29 Sichuanese lineages that maintained their elite status can be identified. Some of those who fled to the southeast relied on ties of native place to establish connections with Sichuanese who had migrated earlier. Others used their 'shidafu' class prestige and skills to obtain official positions, consolidating their status through marriage ties with local elites.
Publication Name: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0073-0548
Year: 1992
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Xin xi guxiang: a study of regional associations as a bonding mechanism in the Chinese diaspora, the Hong Kong experience
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Regional associations in Hong Kong have proven remarkably successful and durable, and play a vital role in connecting fellow-regionals to one another and to their homeland, both materially and spiritually. This bonding builds and sustains native-place consciousness, reconfirming the identity and reinforcing the loyalty of migrants and their descendants even as Hong Kong's own identity rapidly evolves. While some associations have disappeared, new ones have emerged as recently as 1991.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 1997
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Guantanamo, Eatonville, Accompong: Barbecue and the Diaspora in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston
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The barbecue belongs to an established tradition, in which outdoor feasts evince kinship between geographically remote communities of African descent, in African American literary canon. Zora Neale Hurston was the leading pioneer of African American literature's tendency to invest barbecue with such Diasporic resonance and what barbecue reveals finally is the importance interracial hybridity has had in Africa's cultural flowering throughout the Americas.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2006
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