Gifts to the Sad Country
Essays on the Chinese Diaspora
(Sprache: Englisch)
This 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...
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This 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.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Gifts to the Sad Country “
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Souchou Yao
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Souchou Yao
- 2024, 2024, VII, 161 Seiten, Masse: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 9819715970
- ISBN-13: 9789819715978
Sprache:
Englisch
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