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Accepted Paper:
Environmental history of the overseas Chinese farming in new China: a focus on Pearl river delta in the 1950s
Sheng Fei
With new species and ideologies, overseas Chinese returned to their hometown from the Pacific rim after 1949. To settle this people, the new government established farms for those people and turn them to new citizens. It incurred a new wave of eco-cultural exchange between China and the overseas.
Paper long abstract:
Overseas Chinese farming was significant to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Chinese who returned to their hometown from all corners of Indo-Pacific rim in a short time in the decade following the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Benefitting the local economy and strengthening the political identity of these special groups of New China’s citizens, overseas Chinese farmers also greatly promoted the development of eco-cultural networks connecting China to the Pacific. New technologies, species, tools, knowledge from Southeast Asia and Oceania were unexpectedly incorporated into the process of the dramatic transformation of ecology in mainland China in the 1950s, especially in coastal rural areas. This research will combine governmental archives, oral history and material culture studies to show how the Pearl River Delta was changed by the innovation of overseas Chinese farming.