03181nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001500166072001500181072002300196072001800219100007500237245010500312250001800417264008200435300004300517336002600560337002600586338003600612347002400648505023200672520144300904650003502347650003202382650002102414650001302435650002002448650002202468650001902490710003402509773002602543776003602569776003602605776003602641856004602677978-981-97-1598-5DE-He21320251030111741.0cr nn 008mamaa240323s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898197159857 a10.1007/978-981-97-1598-52doi 4aJQ1-1852 7aJP2bicssc 7a1F2bicssc 7aPOL0540002bisacsh 7aJPx1F2thema1 aYao, Souchou.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aGifts to the Sad Countryh[electronic resource] :bEssays on the Chinese Diaspora /cby Souchou Yao.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aVII, 161 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. 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.  aThe 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. 0aAsiaxPolitics and government. 0aEmigration and immigration. 0aEthnologyxAsia. 0aCulture.14aAsian Politics.24aDiaspora Studies.24aAsian Culture.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981971597808iPrinted edition:z978981971599208iPrinted edition:z978981971600540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1598-5