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Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. 'Coming Home to a Foreign Country' addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, the book explores the multilayered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia.

Return migrants --- Return migration --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Repatriation --- Migrant returnees --- Migrants, Return --- Migrants, Reverse --- Returnee migrants --- Returnees (Immigrants) --- Reverse migrants --- Immigrants --- History --- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China) --- Hsia-men (Xiamen Shi, China) --- Shamen (China) --- Siamen (China) --- Amoy (China) --- Xiamen (Fujian Sheng, China) --- Amoi (China) --- Xia men (Xiamen Shi, China) --- History. --- Treaty port Xiamen, Returned overseas Chinese, The construction of Chinese identity, Urban reconstruction in Xiamen.