The Research Of Overseas Chinese In The Modern Times Of Xiamen Port City Development(1840-1949)

After 1842 the treaty of nanjing xiamen became one of five trade, gradually developed into modern minnan’s main port, foreign trade, but also make the surrounding country into line with international trade links.In modern times, the development of the port city of xiamen affect the development direction of the surrounding rural area, which is in xiamen, and the surrounding area such as haicang become overseas Chinese hometown, to make our research explore the intrinsic relationships between overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese hometown in modern social change is possible.Minnan ancient historical tradition have go abroad to seek development, xiamen port drive the surrounding area into international trade system, to further promote the crowd flow at home and abroad, and appear a large number of overseas Chinese remain with his hometown last, closely linked, gradually deep city and the surrounding countryside into a famous overseas Chinese hometown.And influential overseas Chinese in southeast Asian countries have development opportunities, a lot of people get a lot of wealth, so they have the ability to go back to hometown Xing Chan real estate investment, home praised the undertakings, directly or indirectly promote the generated structural changes in such aspects as its way of life, even if does not belong to xiamen administrative areas around the home, but also because of the close relation, overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese hometown nature of xiamen port and have a profound impact on the development of surrounding communities, deepen its social change.It mainly displays in the overseas Chinese population of city industrial and commercial development, public facilities and the surrounding countryside urbanization plays an irreplaceable role, produced the essence of the development of urbanization, and overseas Chinese influence in his hometown of overseas Chinese clan organization, culture, education, life habits, etc.Overseas Chinese, therefore, its influence on the development of the modern port city of xiamen, is not only the development of a port, it is a port drive the heartland community change, make the surrounding area produces by the country to the transformation of overseas Chinese hometown, cause for its social change is the intrinsic power of thinking, help to discuss the promoting effect of overseas Chinese in southeast China coastal modernization.