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100	1		_aYao, Souchou. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _973860
245	1	0	_aGifts to the Sad Country _h[electronic resource] : _bEssays on the Chinese Diaspora / _cby Souchou Yao.
250			_a1st ed. 2024.
264		1	_aSingapore : _bSpringer Nature Singapore : _bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan, _c2024.
300			_aVII, 161 p. 1 illus. _bonline resource.
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505	0		_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.
520			_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.
650		0	_aAsia _xPolitics and government. _969658
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration. _958113
650		0	_aEthnology _xAsia. _966900
650		0	_aCulture. _959159
650	1	4	_aAsian Politics. _969661
650	2	4	_aDiaspora Studies. _966472
650	2	4	_aAsian Culture. _966902
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