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Autore: | Yao Souchou |
Titolo: | Gifts to the Sad Country : Essays on the Chinese Diaspora |
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 |
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