| Kinship was of limited use to the increasingly numerous sojourners who were working away from home in the early Qing. |
| Some came as sojourners, intending only to stay long enough to raise funds for an improvement in their lives back home. |
| Such should ever be the attitude of those who are but sojourners and pilgrims. |
| As this relatively well-educated population evolved from sojourners to permanent residents, they promoted the development of an increasingly mature society. |
| A new form of social organization, based on sworn brotherhood, emerged among male sojourners in southeast China in the late 18th century. |
| Some of the work focuses specifically on diaspora communities, domestic workers, sojourners and the foreignborn. |
