Reconstruction Of Hometown

Qiao-gang, used to be a desolate and remote port, is a town where arranged for fellow countrymen in distress overseas to settle down, resulted from the Chinese Exclusion Policy of Vietnam during 1970s, located in Bei-hai City, Guangxi autonomous region. Over 8,000 excluded overseas Chinese, who used to live as fish men in Po-wan island and Hai-fang, Vietnam, and were Dan people still in Bei-hai area who had moved to Vietnam during early period, were settled down in this town, according to the principle of "Settle Counterpart" from the authority. It is a progressively process which includes the creation and development of Qiao-gang, constantly hybrid of the "impelled" immigrations to the local community and ongoing adaptation of the returned overseas Chinese to their "strange" ancestral home.The returned overseas Chinese in Qiao-gang, who have the dual identity of "immigration" and "Dan people", which shows a particular characteristic of ethnic group of eternal culture, are not returned overseas in general sense. The "life style of Dan people" is well protected and sustained by the returned overseas Chinese who used to be as immigrations living foreign country generation by generation. While returning to the remote and strange ancestral home, however, the inherent customs and culture of those returned overseas were changed seriously to adapt to the enormous transforms and pressures of culture and society, as impelled by the eternal force. The main purpose of the thesis at first is to discuss the force and magic beyond the change of customs; and second to discuss the identity of "impelled" immigrations themselves and the destination, to what is contextual and motivated to construct and a complex psychological process hybrids multiplied interests as well. It suggests a form of permanent state of flux, of which the identity is always changing with time and circumstances around it via analyzing the identity of region and the returned overseas Chinese themselves in Qiao-gang In the end, this thesis attempts to present the whole tracks of emerging and developing progress of settlement of returned overseas Chinese, as to rethink the social problem of settling and blending of immigrations deeply.