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Unsettling exiles : Chinese migrants in Hong Kong and the southern periphery during the Cold War /

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"Between the late 1940s and the 1980s, tens of thousands of people fled mainland China after the Communist takeover in 1949 because of social upheavals, including the Great Leap Forward famine and the Cultural Revolution. Many of those who fled imagined Hong Kong, under British colonial rule, t...

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Main Author: Chin, Angelina Y. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Chinese > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Refugees > China > Hong Kong > History > 20th century.
Cold War.
Identity politics > China > Hong Kong.
Hong Kong (China) > Social conditions.
Chinese diaspora.
National characteristics, Chinese.
Hong Kong (China) > History > 20th century.
Chinese.
Identity politics.
Refugees.
Social conditions.
China > Hong Kong.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Refugees" or "Undesirables": The Fate of Chinese Escapees in the 1950s and 1960s
  • The Third Force and the Culture of Dissent in Hong Kong
  • Cultural Revolution at Sea: Dead Bodies and Kidnapping in the Hong Kong Sea Territories
  • The Unwanted in Limbo: Was Hong Kong a Refuge or a Dumping Ground?
  • The Routes of Three Escapees who Left the PRC in
  • Commemorating the Big Escape: The Question of Memories.