Description
Chinese Emigration (also known as the "Chinese Diaspora") first occurred thousands of years ago, and thus the Chinese population spread all over the world. The mass emigration that happened was mainly the result of wars and starvation in mainland China, as well as political corruption and civil unrest. Motivation for this thesis is to develop an interactive GIS tool to help students to learn about where the Chinese have migrated by utilizing modern computer technology. This software is developed keeping in mind both teachers and students, so that both are benefited. This software displays some points on the world map, which are pre-loaded, or can be read from Comma Separated Values (CSV) files. The non-location attribute information about the countries where Chinese migration is significant. These countries have been grouped into regions. Students can click on the respective country with the help of a hotlink tool to see brief information about the country, overseas Chinese population, year of data, percentage of local Chinese population, percentage of global overseas Chinese population. A wiki link is provided if the student wants to know more information about the Chinese emigrants in that country. This software is made with the help of Map Objects Java Objects (MOJO) provided by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and Google sites to create help pages about the tool. The formal name of MOJO is Map Objects, Java Edition
