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DESCRIPTION:“By Choice and Coercion: The Problem of Dual Citizenship in Mod
 ern China” with Charlotte Brooks\, professor of history focusing on the 20t
 h century US\, Modern China\, and the Chinese diaspora at the Weissman Scho
 ol of Arts & Sciences\, Baruch College\, New York City.\n\nAbstract: The Na
 tionality Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) rejects dual citizens
 hip\, and in recent years\, officials have carried out high profile crackdo
 wns on China-born people who obtain foreign citizenship but use Chinese pas
 sports to enter\, live\, and do business in that country. Yet PRC officials
  have also at times forced foreign-born ethnic Chinese with foreign citizen
 ship to use Chinese citizen travel documents to enter\, live in\, and leave
  the PRC. They have also begun to explore using special visas and statuses 
 to entice more “overseas Chinese” to work and invest in China. This paper l
 ooks at the thorny issue of “overseas Chinese” citizenship as both a contem
 porary question and one with a long history in both the People’s Republic a
 nd its predecessor regimes. For decades\, various Chinese governments have 
 attempted to manipulate the citizenship of the foreign-born “overseas Chine
 se” for political and economic ends\, while many ethnic Chinese with foreig
 n citizenship have in turn sought to use that status to their advantage whi
 le in China.    \n\nMore about Charlotte Brooks: Dr. Brooks' newest book is
  American Exodus: Second Generation Chinese Americans in China\, 1901-1949 
 (University of California Press\, 2019). Between twenty-five and fifty perc
 ent of all native-born Chinese American citizens in the early twentieth cen
 tury left the United States for China under the assumption that they would 
 never permanently return to the land of their birth. American Exodus  explo
 res this little-known aspect of modern Chinese and American history through
  the lives of the thousands of Chinese Americans who settled in Shanghai\, 
 Guangzhou\, Hong Kong\, and the Pearl River Delta. The project received a 2
 017 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teacher
 s.\n\n \n\nThe Cornell Contemporary China Initiative brings leading figures
  from around the world to present at a weekly forum on issues crucial to ou
 r current world\, and also is building an archive of resources on these top
 ics.
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SUMMARY:By choice and coercion: the problem of dual citizenship in modern C
 hina
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/cornell_contemporary_china_initiative_
 -_charlotte_brooks
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