社会变迁与跨国华人家庭的建立——以陈遗恩家庭为例

Remittance and the Chinese Transnational Family Establishment: A Case Study of Family Chen

陈遗恩家庭是民国时期曾生活在马来西亚柔佛州与家乡澄海县间的跨国家庭,出于对"家计"的关怀,移居马来亚的陈遗恩等人与国内家庭保持连续不断的侨批联系。从1910年代到1940年代,陈遗恩跨国家庭经受了许多外部力量的影响仍然生存下来,例如二战前马来亚橡胶业的兴衰、1929～1933年世界经济大危机、1941～1945年太平洋战争、战后马来亚的经济重建和1946～1949年中国的恶性通货膨胀。

This paper aims at studying a Chinese transnational family that holds much contact between Southeast Asia and its hometown in South China for two generations.As a case study,hope to present the complex transnational and transregional interactions between Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and South China.Based upon amount of detailed remittance-mail's prinary dada,this paper explores how a Chinese transnational family survived in spite of cruel political and economic problems.It illustrates that there exist some certain dynamic mechanism in the structure of Chinese transnational family and Chinese transnational communities.This paper provides an important case study to reflect the traditional framework of nation-state and to apply the theoretical formulation of transnationalism in the field of overseas Chinese studies.