Emigration and Hometown Nostalgia

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: 故乡 乡思 侨民 中国 历史动机
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（3）
• 页码范围: 54-57
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: D634.3

摘要

<正> ACCORDING toancient Chinese phi-losophy,a person’shometown is the start-ing and ending point of his or herlife.A hometown and its inhabi—tants are like the roots and leavesof a tree.Those that go awayeventually return,a concept spiri—tualized in the Chinese idiom.“Falling leaves settle on their