03231nam 22003853 450 991084547780332120240412080246.0981-9715-98-9(CKB)31135791100041(MiAaPQ)EBC31229962(Au-PeEL)EBL31229962(EXLCZ)993113579110004120240412d2024 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGifts to the Sad Country Essays on the Chinese Diaspora1st ed.Singapore :Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,2024.©2024.1 online resource (162 pages)981-9715-97-0 Intro -- Author's Note -- Contents -- 1 Moving Story -- Things That Bound -- Journeying -- Migration as Translation -- Overseas Chinese, Chinese Overseas -- Diaspora and Mobility -- Restlessness -- Bu an ding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Revolution Comes to Zhang Chun Village -- The Mission -- Inheritance -- The Greed -- The Midnight Venture -- The Barthesian Myth -- Commune Life -- The Revolution -- The Public Trial -- The Killing Ground -- The Use of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 The Postman -- Land and Geography -- Jen dou dian shao Again -- Uncle Wu the shuike -- The Man of the Eastern Sea -- The Apprenticeship -- The Meeting -- 'The Shipboard Romance' -- Love's Mystery -- The Traveller as Stranger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Grandfather's Two Households -- 'The Lonely Bygone Days' -- Nanyang-The Other Home -- The Blind Uncle Shen-Shien -- Interrogation -- Memory and History -- Patriarchy -- The Marriage Law -- Meeting First Cousin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Things That Bind -- Letters -- Rules of Asking and Giving -- Gifts and History -- Gifts for Son and Daughter -- Dr Huang the Anti-revolutionary -- History and Bribe -- Son Who Rejects Gifts -- Reunion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 My Sister's Grave -- The Lament -- A Match Made in Heaven -- The Incarceration -- Imprisonment and Terror -- My Sister's Grave -- Together in Death -- Good Mao and Revolution -- Revolution and Its Reprieve -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Homebound -- Face-to-Face with 'Getting Rich Is Glorious' China -- Food Delivery -- The Pleasure of the Table -- Mao's Children -- At the Park -- Xiandai, the Chinese Modern -- Redemption -- Moving On -- Leaving -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Revolutionary Romance -- First Posting -- Honeymoon at the Coal Pit -- Revolutionary Romance -- Revolutionary Romance Reined In -- The End of Romance -- The Revolutionary Sublime.Notes -- Bibliography -- 9 Soft Trauma -- Scissor-Cut Noodles -- Holiday Home on Hainan Island -- Commodity Fetishism -- In the Moneyed-World -- Capitalist Fantasy -- 'Only the Distant Happiness' -- Emotional Conduit -- Recollections -- Soft Trauma -- The Bigger Picture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.305.8951Yao Souchou860981MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910845477803321Gifts to the Sad Country4150942UNINA