Abstract
The Stamp of identities: Negotiating diasporic Chinese subjectivity in philatelic space
Highlights
This paper aims to examine the politics and poetics of identities among Chinese nationals known as guiqiao (Returned Overseas Chinese) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
The data used for this study was collected during the author’s 2013 field visit to Quanzhou, one of the major qiaoxiang in the PRC
The first contribution is on the politics of guiqiao identity construction and articulation
Summary
This paper aims to examine the politics and poetics of identities among Chinese nationals known as guiqiao (Returned Overseas Chinese) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Those who arrived in the 1960s were mostly petty shopkeepers, traders, labourers with their families fleeing anti-Chinese policies and riots in some Southeast Asian counties, especially Indonesia They were received by the Chinese government as ‘refugees’ and allocated to huaqiao (Overseas Chinese) farms, in the rural areas of southern China that were purposely built to accommodate the influx of refugees. The identity making of guiqiao was, as Ford aptly argues, ‘a joint effort by the state and its bureaucratic institutions on the one hand, and those who would come to claim this identity (and pass it on to their descendants) on the other’ (243) What it refers to was the strategic employment of official rhetoric by guiqiao for the purpose of protesting themselves, ‘indicative of the persecution they experienced during the Cultural Revolution’ (252). The Conclusion discusses the major findings and larger implications of this case study
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