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Unsettling Exiles
Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War
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Angelina Chin
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Unsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’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.
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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).
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Leo K. Shin, Founding Convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia:
In Unsettling Exiles, the story of post-war Hong Kong is not simply one of socio-economic perseverance but must also be understood in the contexts of the trauma and sense of dislocation experienced by many who had, for a variety of reasons, left China for the British colony. In so telling the story, Chin offers not only to place the experiences of many in Hong Kong in the broader context of what she refers to as the “Southern Periphery” but also to connect the challenges Hong Kong has faced since the 1997 handover to a longer history of fear, despair, and disillusionment.
In Unsettling Exiles, the story of post-war Hong Kong is not simply one of socio-economic perseverance but must also be understood in the contexts of the trauma and sense of dislocation experienced by many who had, for a variety of reasons, left China for the British colony. In so telling the story, Chin offers not only to place the experiences of many in Hong Kong in the broader context of what she refers to as the “Southern Periphery” but also to connect the challenges Hong Kong has faced since the 1997 handover to a longer history of fear, despair, and disillusionment.
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eBook published on:
April 25, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780231558211
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eBook ISBN:
9780231558211
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Professional and scholarly;
