Angelina Chin

Unsettling Exiles

Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

Unsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the cityâ s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 230mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780231209991
• ISBN-10: 0231209991
• Artikelnr.: 66394522

Autorenporträt

Angelina Y. Chin is associate professor of history at Pomona College. She is the author of Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. "Refugees" or "Undesirables": The Fate of Chinese Escapees in the 1950s
and 1960s
2. The Third Force and the Culture of Dissent in Hong Kong
3. Cultural Revolution at Sea: Dead Bodies and Kidnapping in the Hong Kong
Sea Territories
4. The Unwanted in Limbo: Was Hong Kong a Refuge or a Dumping Ground?
5. The Three Escapees
6. Commemorating the Big Escape: The Question of Memories
Epilogue
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index