| #2313280 in Books | 2008-08-07 | 2008-08-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.50 x5.40l,.60 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| She LOVED it! She couldn't put it down|By Jake from state farm|Bought for my mom. She LOVED it! She couldn't put it down. 2nd generation Hakka. Read it in 2 days. Her comment, "fascinating"|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| traveling between cultures|By david canu|This book follows a family from Malaysia ,|About the Author|Malaysian-born Chin Woon Ping teaches English and women's and gender studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of In My Mother's Dream and The Naturalization of Camellia Song. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon ,
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...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies) | Woon Ping Chin. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
