26. Role of the Home Districts (qiaoxiang)

It is impossible to understand Chinese Australian history without also understand the qiaoxiang - the home districts. The various small countries or districts in the Pearl River Delta with which people identifies and via which many people organised and associated themselves when far from home. Here we only touch upon this fascinating topic. See: Returning Home with Glory: Chinese villagers around the Pacific, 1849 to 1949 by Michael Williams, Hong Kong University Press, 2018. and also, ‘Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Qiaoxiang‘, Modern Asian Studies, 2004, vol. 38, part 2, pp. 257-282. Please check out our publications at - https://chidestudypresscom.wordpress.com/the-bookstore Feel free to ask questions at: [email protected]  For more on Chinese Australian history check out Chinese Australian History in 88 Objects - https://chinozhistory.org/index.php/suggest-an-object/