{"product_id":"the-hakkas-of-sarawak-9781442615465","title":"The Hakkas of Sarawak","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia’s judicial-administrative regime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hakkas of Sarawak \u003c\/em\u003elooks at how these incarcerated people struggled for survival and dealt with their defeat over the course of a generation. Using methodologies of narrative theory and exchange theory, Kee Howe Yong provides a powerful account of the ongoing legacies of Cold War oppression and its impact on the lives of people who were victimized by these policies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended. All levels. -- A. Pashia Choice Magazine, vol 51:06:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Chapter 1 - Overseas Chinese  Chapter 2 - Greater Malaysian Plan  Chapter 3 - The Sri Aman Treaty  Chapter 4 - Any other day at the bus station  Chapter 5 - What's there to tell  Chapter 6 - Virtuous subjects  Chapter 7 - Sites of impermanence  Chapter 8 - Facing the artefact  Endnotes  Bibliography","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408352813399,"sku":"9781442615465","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442615465.jpg?v=1730502558","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-hakkas-of-sarawak-9781442615465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}