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The present dissertation provides an example of how social and political conditions influence people of two descent groups on the southern Fujian coast to claim their ethnic identity. The study deals with identity change in two communities in Jinjiang City and Hui'an County, kno…

Qiaoxiang refers to the ancestral hometown of the Chinese Overseas. Since a century ago, the coastal regions in Fujian and Guangdong have become well-known qiaoxiang. In the beginning, migrants went abroad to make a living, sojourning between the places of residence overseas and…

Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Chinese Catholic converts localized Christianity in their communities. This process involved the appropriation of Catholic ritual and devotional elements. Owing to their rich archival records, as well as to their unint…