Gifts to the Sad Country : Essays on the Chinese Diaspora / by Souchou Yao
| Publisher | (Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan) |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Edition | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Authors | *Yao, Souchou author SpringerLink (Online service) |
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OB00196158 | Springer Political Science and International Studies（電子ブック） | 9789819715985 |
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| Size | VII, 161 p. 1 illus : online resource |
| Notes | 1. Moving Story -- 2. Revolution Comes to Zhang Chun Village -- 3. The Postman -- 4. Grandfather’s Two Households -- 5. Things That Bind -- 6. My Sister’s Grave -- 7. Homebound -- 8. Revolutionary Romance -- 9. Soft Trauma The book is a study of an ethnic-Chinese family in Malaysia as it struggled with the upheavals in China during the Land Reform (1945-1953) and the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962). Based on fieldwork in Malaysia and in a village in Dabu County, Southern China, it tells a story of a family whose existence straddled two nations, two political systems. Emigration is shown to be both a positive experience and a source of despair. The study redefines the conventional narrative about the Chinese diaspora as economically driven and politically expedient; mobility, personal freedom and transnational journeying were a part of their cultural history. The book highlights the fact that Chinese homeland, even under communist rule, offered the people a means of identification under difficult circumstances. During the time of radical reform, the diaspora adapted themselves to the conditions in the homeland, and for some China remained a place of longing and emotional attachment. Souchou Yao is a writer and a former staff member of the Department of Anthropology, the University of Sydney, Australia. Among his publications are Singapore: The State and the culture of excess (2007), The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a small distant war (2016), The Shop on High Street: At home with petite capitalism (2020), Doing Lifework in Malaysia (2020). He lives with his wife, the artist Simryn Gill, in Port Dickson, Malaysia, and Sydney, Australia HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1598-5 |
| Subjects | LCSH:Asia -- Politics and government
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LCSH:Emigration and immigration LCSH:Ethnology -- Asia All Subject Search LCSH:Culture FREE:Asian Politics FREE:Diaspora Studies FREE:Asian Culture |
| Classification | LCC:JQ1-1852 DC23:320.95 |
| ID | 8000095170 |
| ISBN | 9789819715985 |
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