Unsettling Exiles - Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong Southern Periphery During Cold War

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Angelina Chin, Chin Angelina
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2023
• EAN: 9780231209991
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20999-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Asia / China, Hong Kong, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Asian History, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War