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HAKKA SOUL: MEMORIES MIGRATIONS AND MEALS
Woon Ping Chin
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Description for HAKKA SOUL: MEMORIES MIGRATIONS AND MEALS
Paperback. Chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of the author's family, beginning with the death of her grandmother in pre-Independence Malaya. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JJ; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
Chin Woon Ping's ""Hakka Soul"" chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her grandmother in pre-Independence Malaya. It was a tumultuous period when the occupying Japanese army had just been defeated, the British colonial government was losing its grip on the country and a Communist guerilla insurgency had broken out in the jungles of the Malay Peninsula. Her stories follow the family's move to the United States and a journey to China to visit her father's ancestral home. The family's migrations are part of the global diaspora of the Hakkas, known in China ... Read more
Chin Woon Ping's ""Hakka Soul"" chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her grandmother in pre-Independence Malaya. It was a tumultuous period when the occupying Japanese army had just been defeated, the British colonial government was losing its grip on the country and a Communist guerilla insurgency had broken out in the jungles of the Malay Peninsula. Her stories follow the family's move to the United States and a journey to China to visit her father's ancestral home. The family's migrations are part of the global diaspora of the Hakkas, known in China ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971694005
SKU
V9789971694005
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About Woon Ping Chin
Chin Woon Ping teaches English and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont. She has held positions at Swarthmore College, the Singapore National Institute of Education, the National University of Singapore and as a Fulbright Professor in Shanghai, Penang and Jakarta.
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