Gifts to the Sad Country : Essays on the Chinese Diaspora

• Autore: Yao Souchou
• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.8951
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II