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机构地区: 南洋理工大学
出 处: 《东南亚研究》 2013年第4期56-67,共12页
摘 要: 通过对过去半个世纪来新加坡华人与中国之间密切联系的实证分析,本文认为海外华人与故乡的多层互动推动了跨国华人社会场域的形成和发展。该场域有三个主要特征:第一,海外华人借助这一超越民族国家疆界的跨国网络与故乡建立起稳定的联系,推动着人员、观念、商品和资本的跨国流动和交流,国家在塑造这一跨国联系的性质方面扮演着重要角色;第二,除了推动社会和商业发展之外,该跨国场域还涵盖了动态的经济、政治和文化互动,并为创造一个集体性的华人散居者群体认同做出了积极贡献;第三,跨国华人社会的关键性制度机制是推动社会和商业网络整体发展的各类华人社团,它们包括宗乡社团和专业机构等。 Based upon an empirical analysis on Singaporean Chinese's intriguing and changing linkages with China over the past half a century, this paper suggests that multi-layered interactions between Chinese Diaspora and the homeland have led to the formulation of an emerging transnational Chinese social sphere, which has three main characteristics: (1) It is a space for communications by ethnic Chinese abroad with their hometown/homeland through regular and extensive flows of population, ideas, goods and capital that transcend the nation-state borders, and the state also plays an important role in shaping the nature of these flows ; (2) This transnational social sphere is a dynamic interface between economy, politics and culture, which contributed to the making of a collective Dias- poric identity (by way of constructing "subjective visions" of the homeland) as well as social and business networks (by way of co-ethnic activities) ; (3) The key institutional mechanism of the transnational social sphere is various types of Chinese organizations, ranging from locality associations to professional organizations, which have constitu- ted an integral component of Chinese social and business networks.