书目名称 | Gifts to the Sad Country | 副标题 | Essays on the Chines | 编辑 | Souchou Yao | 视频video | | 概述 | Explores Chinese belongingness.Analyzes the politics of China‘s diaspora.Explores the role of Chinese in SE Asia | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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.. | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | 关键词 | chinese diasporas; chinese history; southeast asia; ASEAN; asian politics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1598-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-97-1600-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-97-1598-5 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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