BOOK

Gifts to the sad country : essays on the Chinese diaspora

Yao, Souchou, author

2024

Overview

\"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. \" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Chinese Malaysia History 20th century. / Chinese diaspora History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9789819715978, 9819715970

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS595.2.C5 Y36 2024	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT