跨境（國）社區：烈嶼與汶萊的移民記憶與社會網絡

Lieyu （also known as Little Quemoy）is located in the west of Quemoy Island and east of Xiamen Island. It covers an area of 14.85 square kilometers and has a population of about 5,000. After the middle of the 19th century, the young people of Lieyu immigrated to Southeast Asia massively. Under the mechanism of chain migration, the main overseas destinations of the Lieyu’s immigration are Brunei and Singapore. Among them, the Sultan state of Brunei, which is located in the northwest of Borneo, covers an area of 5,765 square kilometers. The immigrants and their descendants of the ancestral island are the most important communities in the Chinese society in Brunei. The well-established overseas Chinese have played the role of local Chinese social leaders, and many of them have also obtained the official title of the Sultan's candidacy. The project aims to discuss immigration memories such as the experience of diaspora, settlement and homecoming of Lieyu’s overseas Chinese in Brunei, and try to understand the social network and cultural influences of the two places before the Second World War, the Cold War and the post-Cold War period, including family cohesion, remittance economy, religious beliefs, geographic culture and national identity, etc. Further, the project wants to explore the dynamic processes of social and spatial development of overseas Chinese in modern time and try to rebuild the social, economic and life history of Brunei Chinese. This project will base on field investigation, literature research and oral interviews, and discusses the overseas migration process and distribution of the Lieyu’s immigrants. And then the project wants to analyze the immigration situation during the Cold War period, from 1950s to 1980s; further, try to understand the formation and development of the Chinese community in Brunei, including the role of Chinese temples, chambers of commerce, Chinese associations, and Chinese schools. And the project bases on the experience of several representative families of diaspora, settlement and returning home, and explore the operation of the overseas Chinese network, as well as the multiplicity and complexity of culture and national identity. Through these different types of immigration memories and multi-level social networks, it is possible to understand the social and cultural landscape of the hometown of Lieyu, and also to describe the dynamic changes of the Chinese community in Brunei.