Gifts to the Sad Country: Essays on the Chinese Diaspora (2024)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2024
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789819715985
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789819715978
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Date of Addition:
- 05/19/24
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Mathematics and Statistics, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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