Readings relating to project design, data collection, and data analysis:
Fairclough, Norman. 2003. Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London: Routledge.
Fowler, Floyd J. 2009. Survey research methods. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Hammersley, Martyn&Paul Atkinson. 2007. Ethnography: Principles in practice. London: Routledge.
Shields, Patricia M. & Nandhini Rangarajan. 2013. A playbook for research methods: Integrating conceptual frameworks and project management. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.
Silverman, David. 2010. Doing Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Readings relating to Chinese transnational migration:
Chan, Brenda. 2005. Imagining the homeland: The Internet and diasporic discourse of nationalism. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 29(4): 336-368.
Fong, Vanessa L. 2011. Paradise redefined: Transnational Chinese students and the quest for flexible citizenship in the developed world. Stanford, CA: Stanford.
Han, Donglin and David Zweig. 2010. Images of the world: Studying abroad and Chinese attitudes towards international affairs. The China Quarterly. 202:290-306.
Hearn, Adrian H. 2012. Harnessing the dragon: Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba. China Quarterly. 209:111-133.
Kuhn, Philip A. 2008. Chinese among others: Emigration in modern times. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Liu Hong, 2005. New migrants and the revival of overseas Chinese nationalism. Journal of Contemporary China. 14(43): 291–316.
Nyíri, Pál. 2001.Expatriating is patriotic? The discourse on 'new migrants' in the People's Republic of China and identity construction among recent migrants from the PRC. Journal of Ethnic andMigration Studies. 27(4): 635-653.
Ong, Aihwa. 1999. Flexible citizenship: The cultural logics of transnationality. Durham: Duke.
Ong, Aihwa and Donald M. Nonini. eds. 1996. Ungrounded empires: The cultural politics of modern Chinese transnationalism. New York: Routledge.
Pieke, Frank et al. 2004. Transnational Chinese: Fujianese migrants in Europe. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Staffor, Charless. ed. 2003. Living with separation in China: Anthropological accounts. New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
Sun, Wanning. 2002. Leaving China: Media, migration, and transnational imagination. Lanham:Rowman & Littlefield.
Thun?, Mette. ed. 2007. Beyond Chinatown: new Chinese migration and the global expansion of China. Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
Thun?, Mette. 2001. Reaching out and incorporating Chinese overseas: The Trans-territorial scope of the PRC by the end of the 20th century. The China Quarterly. 168: 911-928.
Wang, Gungwu. 2000. The Chinese overseas: From earthbound China to the quest for autonomy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
林蔼云. 2006. 漂泊的家：晋江-香港移民研究. 社会学研究.02: 147-148. http://www.sachina.edu.cn/Htmldata/article/2006/06/1044.html
Most of the readings are available in Fronter.