LEADER 03355nam 22006015 450 001 9910845477803321 005 20250807140231.0 010 $a9789819715985 010 $a9819715989 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-1598-5 035 $a(CKB)31135791100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31229962 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31229962 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-1598-5 035 $a(OCoLC)1429725504 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931135791100041 100 $a20240323d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGifts to the Sad Country $eEssays on the Chinese Diaspora /$fby Souchou Yao 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) 311 08$a9789819715978 311 08$a9819715970 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aAsia$xPolitics and government 606 $aEmigration and immigration 606 $aEthnology$zAsia 606 $aCulture 606 $aAsian Politics 606 $aDiaspora Studies 606 $aAsian Culture 615 0$aAsia$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aAsian Politics. 615 24$aDiaspora Studies. 615 24$aAsian Culture. 676 $a305.8951 700 $aYao$b Souchou$0860981 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910845477803321 996 $aGifts to the Sad Country$94150942 997 $aUNINA