Gifts to the Sad Country : Essays on the Chinese Diaspora / / by Souchou Yao
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| Autore: |
Yao Souchou
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| Titolo: |
Gifts to the Sad Country : Essays on the Chinese Diaspora / / by Souchou Yao
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Asia - Politics and government |
| Emigration and immigration | |
| Ethnology - Asia | |
| Culture | |
| Asian Politics | |
| Diaspora Studies | |
| Asian Culture | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gifts to the Sad Country |
| ISBN: | 981-9715-98-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910845477803321 |
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