This chapter looks at the British Chinese community’s ties to people and institutions beyond Britain, in the light of theories of transnationalism. It examines three main sorts of tie: with community members’ hometowns or ancestral places; with homeland states (chiefly mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong) or homeland political parties; and with diasporic Chinese communities in other countries. Some ties remain informal, others are formally incorporated into associations. A further distinction is between initiatives by ordinary immigrants and hometowners and those that are the top-down product of actions by states, big business, and other institutions.1 Official bodies in the host society also sometimes play a role in creating and sustaining transnational ties.
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Benton, G., & Gomez, E. T. (2008). Transnationalism. In Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (pp. 202–283). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288508_5
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