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Gifts to the sad countryessays on the Chinese diaspora /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gifts to the sad countryby Souchou Yao.
Reminder of title:	essays on the Chinese diaspora /
Author:	Yao, Souchou.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2024.
Description:	vii, 161 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	ChineseHistory20th century.Malaysia
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1598-5
ISBN:	9789819715985$q(electronic bk.)

Gifts to the sad countryessays on the Chinese diaspora /
Yao, Souchou.

Gifts to the sad countryessays on the Chinese diaspora /[electronic resource] :by Souchou Yao. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2024. - vii, 161 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9789819715985$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-97-1598-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

978437
Chinese
--History--Malaysia--20th century.

LC Class. No.: DS595.2.C5

Dewey Class. No.: 305.89510595

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