2. The Diaspora Goes to War: Human Capital and China’s Defense

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Floating Population and Foreign Policy 1
5. Part I. Migration Diplomacy at War
6. 1. Unequal Allies: Renegotiating Exclusions 13
7. 2. The Diaspora Goes to War: Human Capital and China’s Defense 42
8. 3. A Fight on All Fronts: The Chinese Civil War, Restored Migration, and Emigration as National Policy 69
9. Part II. Migrant Cold Warriors
10. 4. Chinese Migrants as Cold Warriors: Immigration and Deportation in the 1950s 99
11. 5. Remitting to the Enemy: Transnational Family Finances and Foreign Policy 128
12. 6. Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Using Refugee Policy to Support Free China 154
13. Part III. Shifting Exclusions
14. 7. Cold War Hostages: Repatriation Policy and the Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks 187
15. 8. Visa Diplomacy: The Taiwan Independence Movement and Changing U.S.-Chinese Relations 215
16. Conclusion: Coming in from the Cold 238
17. Note on Sources 253
18. Notes 257
19. Index 303