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Hua Song
By Christine Suchen Lim |
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Hua Song celebrates the spirit and memory of those who left their homes for a dream. It weaves together the threads of this epic journey and gives voice to the men and women who undertook it. This jewelbox of archival images and artifacts recalls a common past, bringing to vivid life the continuing story of the Chinese overseas.
Wang Gungwu is the Director of the East Asian Institute, Faculty Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University, Canberra. He has taught at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and at the Australian National University, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. Wang is an internationally recognised authority on the Chinese overseas and has written extensively on the subject.
Book Description from the Front Cover Flap
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, war and pestilence drove thousands of Chinese to every part of the world in search of a better life. This diaspora was one of the great events of modern history, and the story of its sojourners and migrant workers was one of pain, courage and enterprise.
Book Description
This rich photographic record of the history of overseas Chinese communities around the world provides a fascinating look at the migration of a people, their hopes, aspirations, and dreams for a better life. Christine Lim has assembled oral histories, remembrances, and testimonials in this enduring historical record.
Extract From the Foreword Printed On the Back Cover
The story of how [the] Chinese set forth, how they were treated where they landed, how some returned and others fought to stay on, and how their descendants helped to develop their adopted lands, is succinctly and graphically told in this volume by Christine Suchen Lim. With her excellent choice of quotes and extracts, she captures the story of the Chinese as a global presence and makes their words sing out to us.
- Professor Wang Gungwu
Director, East Asian Institute
Background on Christine Suchen Lim and Wang Gungwu
Christine Suchen Lim is the first author to be awarded the Singapore Literature Prize for her novel, Fistful of Colours. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997 to attend the University of Iowa's international writers' programme. She was its international writer-in-residence in 2000, and in 2003 was the writer-in-residence at the University of Western Australia.
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