英文摘要 |
With the advancement of information technology in the past decades, increasing numbers of established Chinese overseas communities and new organizations have created an online presence on the World Wide Web. Based on observation of the Chinese overseas organizations on the Internet, this paper (1) reviews the role of the Internet in the continuity, transformation and development of the Chinese overseas organizations; (2) examines related scholarly publications to see the compatibility of their on-site analysis in the real world with our online investigation; (3) discusses the relations between the Internet application and the electronic co-ethnic global mobilization in the socio-cultural and politico-economic settings relating to Chinese overseas; (4) identifies the characteristics of representative online Chinese associations in Southeast Asia and the websites of the newly established Chinese trade, professional and student organizations in Japan, the United States and Europe to compare the old Chinese communities and the new Chinese migrants on the Internet; and (5) concludes by exploring how online discourse analysis might add depth to the studies of transnationalism and give a living face to Chinese overseas organizations. |