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Record W2589134776

Myth and Reality of the Chinese Diaspora

2002· article· en· W2589134776 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Dong Sull Choi

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDiasporaMythologyHistoryAncient historyArtSociologyClassicsGender studies
DOInot available

Abstract

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Migration is one of the world's greatest travel sagas of all time.It is safe to assume that right after the first human beings appeared on the earth they began to migrate, moving from place to place in pursuit of big game.The rapidity with which hunting bands occupied all the continents, probably with the exception of Antarctica, in about 50,000 years, attests to this human propensity. 1 No dominant species ever spread so far so fast.In modern times, people have always moved to find land and work, and to flee from war, famine and oppression.The Second World War (1939-1945) displaced nearly forty-five million people.In English usage, the Greek term "diaspora" refers specifically to the dispersion of the Jews from their homeland.There is thus no ambiguity about the term diaspora or dispersion when it is used in relation to the Jewish people. 2 But once it is applied to other religious or ethnic groups, it becomes immediately apparent how difficult it is to find a definition that makes a clear distinction between a migration and a diaspora, or between a minority and a diaspora. 3 The term clearly implies the idea of "exile."Thus the term "diaspora" is not used when discussing the presence of descendants of British people in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Canada, and the United States. 4onversely, and making matters even more complex, there is a widespread tendency to apply the term "diaspora" to the Chinese or Indian communities scattered across the globe when European imperialism was at its height in the second half of the nineteenth century.These people scattered to southeast Asia, the West Indies, the Indian Ocean, eastern and southern Africa, Europe, and the United States. 5t has often been observed that in all the annals of recorded history, there is no chapter more romantic, more inspiring, yet more complex than the 2,500-year-long episode of the Jewish people in exile, begun with the so-called Babylonian Captivity in the sixth century B.C. 6 For the last four centuries, however, the world has observed another more significant migration from the world's most populous country, China.Undisputably this Chinese diaspora is regarded as the most widespread and continuing series of migrations by one nation the world has ever seen.Indeed, the Chinese dispersal across 109 countries of the world is

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.146
Threshold uncertainty score0.979

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.239
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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