Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Archivists in China have collected tens of thousands of qiaopi, drawn from China's major regions of outmigration and of settlement overseas, in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific. The qiaopi cover a crucial and defining period in China's modern history and the history of global migration, which was a key driving force in global social and economic development. In June 2013, the Qiaopi Project was officially registered under UNESCO's "Memory of the World" programme, set up in 1992 because of "a growing awareness of the parlous state of preservation of documentary heritage" in the world.
| Author: Gregor Benton, Huimei Zhang, Hong Liu |
| Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication Date: Nov 26, 2019 |
| Number of Pages: 346 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 9813274921 |
| ISBN-13: 9789813274921 |
