LEADER 03231nam 22003853 450 001 9910845477803321 005 20240412080246.0 010 $a981-9715-98-9 035 $a(CKB)31135791100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31229962 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31229962 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931135791100041 100 $a20240412d2024 uy 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 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore Pte. Limited,$d2024. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (162 pages) 311 $a981-9715-97-0 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $aNotes -- 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. 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