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The Response to Rural Reform in an Overseas Chinese Area: Examples from Two Localities in the Western Pearl River Delta Region, South China1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Graham E. Johnson  and
Woon Fong-Yuen
Graham E. Johnson
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Woon Fong-Yuen
Affiliation:
University of Victoria
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A major transformation has occurred in rural China since reform policies were initiated in 1979. It has been particularly dramatic in the highly commercialized Pearl River delta region of the southern province of Guangdong, provenance of most North Americans of Chinese origin. The delta region has become firmly incorporated into the global economy and its external linkages, especially to Hong Kong, have been central in the process of change. The responses to reform in the areas of the delta dominated by an Overseas Chinese presence have been distinctive. Varied family economic strategies have arisen to meet the opportunities implicit in the new policies for rural reform in a region in which remittances from abroad are significant. There has also been the revival of complex kinship groupings (lineages) energized by Overseas Chinese communities, which have assumed important roles in regional economic development.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 1997 , pp. 31 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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