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04457aam a2200553 i 4500 001 14E4E9A4253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 220823s2023 nyuab b 001 0deng 010 $a 2022040565 020 $a 0231209991 020 $a 9780231209991 020 $a 0231209983 020 $a 9780231209984 035 $a (OCoLC)1341990102 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UKMGB $d CDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc-hk 050 00 $a DS796.H75 $b C4345 2023 082 00 $a 951.2505 $2 23/eng/20220823 100 1 $a Chin, Angelina Y., $e author. 245 10 $a Unsettling exiles : $b Chinese migrants in Hong Kong and the southern periphery during the Cold War / $c Angelina Y. Chin. 246 30 $a Chinese migrants in Hong Kong and the southern periphery during the Cold War 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiii, 302 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "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. 520 $a "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, to be a place of political freedom and full of easy opportunities to get rich. The ones who managed to reach the British colonial city eventually settled down and became the first generation of "Hong Kongers." Most scholarly works about Hong Kong's post-World War II development perpetuate this popular account by featuring poor migrants who overcame perilous journeys and economic poverty to eventually succeed in climbing up the social ladder and transforming the colonial city from a backwater to an industrial and financial hub. However, in reality, not everyone who stayed in Hong Kong was comfortable in the host city. Some were refugees, exiled people, or "undesirable" residents-and others were locals who had never been a part of the traditional Chinese narrative, like people in sea communities living along the coasts of Hong Kong. This book presents an alternative way to discuss the formation of Hong Kong identity by linking the experiences of different types of border-crossers, arguing that the political identity of people in Hong Kong today was formed not only from the struggle of lower-class immigrants under British colonial capitalism, but also from the collective trauma of fleeing mainland China. Drawing on archival research, oral history, and media analysis, this book explores the roots of Hong Kong's ambivalent relationship to the mainland and its role in the global push-and-pull of the Cold War and its aftermath"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Chinese $z Hong Kong $z Hong Kong $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Refugees $z Hong Kong $z Hong Kong $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War. 650 0 $a Identity politics $z Hong Kong. $z Hong Kong. 651 0 $a Hong Kong (China) $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Chinese diaspora. 650 0 $a National characteristics, Chinese. 651 0 $a Hong Kong (China) $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00857169 650 7 $a Chinese diaspora. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01746779 650 7 $a Identity politics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01747531 650 7 $a National characteristics, Chinese. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033393 650 7 $a Refugees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092797 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a China $z Hong Kong. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01260796 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Chin, Angelina Y. $t Unsettling exiles $d New York City : Columbia University Press, 2023 $z 9780231558211 $w (DLC) 2022040566 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=14E4E9A4253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search