Download or read book China s Homeless Generation written by Joshua Fan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Homeless Generation is a study of nearly two million Chinese who were displaced from home in Mainland China to the island of Taiwan. A result of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this massive migration began around 1948 and continued for more than a decade. The displacement officially lasted until November 1987, when they were legally allowed to return for the first time in nearly forty years. Collectively, referred to as the ‘Homeless Generation’, this unique study makes extensive use of these survivors’ own voices to formulate a truly fascinating story of a generation of Chinese who found themselves outsiders not just in Taiwan, but in the places they called home. Joshua Fan provides a detailed picture of the exodus, the struggle to find a new home in Taiwan, both physically and psychologically, and ultimately the experiences and effects of returning to the mainland decades later. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, the Chinese civil war, Chinese Diasporas, and China Studies in general.

Download or read book China s Homeless Generation written by Joshua Fan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Homeless Generation is a study of nearly two million Chinese who were displaced from home in Mainland China to the island of Taiwan. A result of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this massive migration began around 1948 and continued for more than a decade. The displacement officially lasted until November 1987, when they were legally allowed to return for the first time in nearly forty years. Collectively, referred to as the ‘Homeless Generation’, this unique study makes extensive use of these survivors’ own voices to formulate a truly fascinating story of a generation of Chinese who found themselves outsiders not just in Taiwan, but in the places they called home. Joshua Fan provides a detailed picture of the exodus, the struggle to find a new home in Taiwan, both physically and psychologically, and ultimately the experiences and effects of returning to the mainland decades later. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, the Chinese civil war, Chinese Diasporas, and China Studies in general.

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Download or read book The Homeless Generation Voices from the Invisible Chinese Diaspora written by Joshua Fan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeless Generation: Voices from the Invisible Chinese Diaspora," is a study of the two million Chinese who migrated to Taiwan from mainland China in the midst of the civil war, from the time they left their homes in the 1940s to the 1990s, when they were finally able to return. My study makes extensive use of interviews with survivors (both previously published and ones conducted by myself) to provide a detailed picture of the exodus, the struggle to find a place in a new location, the attempts to establish new families, and ultimately the experiences and effects of returning to the mainland decades later. My study has three main objectives: (1) to document a heretofore unrecognized but important episode in modern Chinese history, (2) to show that the Homeless Generation is part of the Chinese diaspora; and (3) to refine the oversimplification that the Waishengren (Mainlanders) formed a privileged minority in Taiwan. Collectively, I refer to these migrants as the "Homeless Generation" not only because most were physically homeless during their first decade in Taiwan, but also because many remained homeless---at least psychologically---as they could not establish new homes in Taiwan or intended to soon return to their homes on the mainland. In the late 1980s, the Homeless Generation finally were able to return to the mainland, only to find that they were not just outsiders in Taiwan but also in the places they called home. Most came to the conclusion that they could return to Mainland China, but they could never return "home." The families, the ancestral graves, and the old family houses---the features of home---had been eroded by time and development, leaving most returnees strangers in their hometowns. Because of the violent history of the Nationalist takeover of Taiwan, epitomized by the February 28 Incident, tension, conflict, and prejudice persisted between the majority Benshengren (Taiwanese) and the minority Waishengren. Thus, even after decades of exile in Taiwan, the migrants were treated as outsiders both in the country of their birth and in their new land---and so they remain the Homeless Generation.

Download or read book My Homeless Generations written by Lanjing Zhou and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Wu Qianxi. Born in Beijing, she spent her first five years with a loving Aunt at a rural village in Hebei Providence, China, until her father took her back to an academy of the People's Liberation Army. She then lived there as a "stranger in a strange land" until the Cultural Revolution came and replaced education with "re-education." In that chaos Wu Qianxi found freedom and became a self-made Red Guard. But when her father was criticized, her world collapsed - he was an editor of the Workers' Press of China and had tried to publish the book entitled Liu Zhidan, which Mao Zedong thought offensive - and to survive, our hero fell back upon the values of the village where she had been nurtured. This is her story, told from that girl's point of view, first with a peasant family, then with her elite parents in Beijing, and finally at a hospital in China's remote northeast where she worked as a sixteen-year-old surgical nurse.

Download or read book The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century written by Martin Crotty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they recognized—or not—by their governments and fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain an elevated postwar status? In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable policies. The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support. The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future: comparative veteran studies.

Download or read book The Great Exodus from China written by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines the human exodus from China to Taiwan in 1949, focusing on trauma, memory, and identity.

Download or read book My Homeless Generations written by Lanjing Zhou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Wu Qianxi -- "Crazy Wu" as the boys called her. Born in Beijing, she spent her first five years with a loving Aunt in a peasant village, before her father suddenly took her back to an elite Academy of the People's Liberation Army of China. She then lived there, as a "stranger in a strange land," playing mostly alone, and also going to elementary school, until the Cultural Revolution came and replaced education with "re-education." In that insanity, Wu Qianxi found freedom and became a self-made Red Guard. But when her father was criticized, her world collapsed -- he was the editor of the Workers' Press of China and had tried to publish the book titled Liu Zhidan, which Mao Zedong thought offensive. To survive, our hero fell back upon the values of the village where she had been nurtured. This is her story, told from that girl's point of view, as she was growing up, first with a peasant family, then with her elite parents in Beijing, and finally at a remote hospital, where she gave intravenous treatments and stitches to patients as a sixteen-year-old nurse.

Download or read book Economy Hotels in China written by Songshan Sam Huang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics which can be used to illustrate and help explain China’s current economic progress more generally. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the economy hotel sector in China. It covers macro-level social-cultural, economic, environmental, geographic and development issues, alongside micro-level consideration of the budget hotel companies’ innovative management and marketing procedures, business expansion strategies, general hotel management and operation issues, as well as an analysis of some leading entrepreneurs in the sector, and in-depth case studies examining the most successful economy hotel companies in China. Huang and Sun argue that the rapid development of budget hotels in China demonstrates how, under the influence of globalisation, Chinese businesses have become more innovative as they apply successful western business models to China. In turn, they show that the China model is fundamentally different in terms of its driving force, which lies purely in its domestic travel market, fuelled by China's continued economic growth. There is therefore much to explore about both China’s market situation and business practices in the economy hotel sector and this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of China’s new business environment. Based on extensive fieldwork and investigation, Economy Hotels in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of tourism, hospitality, business studies and Chinese studies, but it will also appeal to practitioners of business management in these sectors who are interested in China’s development and business opportunities in China.

Download or read book China s Civil War written by Diana Lary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Civil War is the first book of its kind to offer a social history in English of the Civil War in 1945–9 that brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Integrating history and memory, it surveys a period of intense upheaval and chaos to show how the Communist Party and its armies succeeded in overthrowing the Nationalist government to bring political and social revolution to China. Drawing from a collection of biographies, memoirs, illustrations and oral histories, Diana Lary gives a voice to those who experienced the war first-hand, exemplifying the direct effects of warfare - the separations and divisions, the exiles and losses, and the social upheaval that resulted from the conflict. Lary explores the long-term impact on Chinese societies on the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong, which have all diverged far from pre-war Chinese society.

Download or read book Literary Representations of Mainlanders in Taiwan written by Phyllis Yu-ting Huang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan’s second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China. Closely analyzing literary narratives of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants in Taiwan, a group referred to as "mainlanders" (waishengren), this book demonstrates that these Chinese migrants’ ideas of "China" and "Chineseness" have adapted through time with their gradual settlement in the host land. Drawing upon theories of Sinophone Studies and memory studies, this book argues that during the three decades in which Taiwan moved away from the Kuomintang’s authoritarian rule to a democratic society, mainlander identity was narrated as a transformation from a diasporic Chinese identity to a more fluid and elusive Sinophone identity. Characterized by the features of cultural hybridity and emotional in-betweenness, mainlander identity in the eight works explored contests the existing Sinocentric discourse of Chineseness. An important contribution to the current research on Taiwan’s identity politics, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, Chinese migration, and Taiwanese literature as well as Chinese literature in general.

Download or read book Economy Emotion and Ethics in Chinese Cinema written by David Leiwei Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Centring the role of capitalism in the Chinese everyday, the framework can be employed to comprehend contemporary Chinese culture in general and, as in this study, Chinese cinema in particular. This book investigates major Chinese-language films from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in order to unpack a hyper-compressed capitalist modernity with distinctive Chinese characteristics. As a dialogue between the film genre as a mediation of microscopic social life, and the narrative of economic development as a macroscopic political abstraction, it engages the two otherwise remotely related worlds, illustrating how the State and the Subject are reconstituted cinematically in late capitalism. A deeply cultural, determinedly historical, and deliberately interdisciplinary study, it approaches "culture" anthropologically, as a way of life emanating from the everyday, and aesthetically, as imaginative forms and creative expressions. Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese cinema, cultural studies, Asian studies, and interdisciplinary studies of politics and culture.

Download or read book China s Homeless Generation written by Joshua Fan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's Homeless Generation is a study of the two million Chinese who migrated to Taiwan from mainland China in the midst of the civil war, from the time they left their homes in the 1940s to when they were finally able to return.

Download or read book Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities written by Youqin Huang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations. In particular, Chinese cities have witnessed the largest housing boom in history and unprecedented housing privatization. China now is a country of homeowners, with more than 70 per cent of urban residents owning homes, higher than many developed countries. This book shows how China’s spectacular housing success is not shared by all social groups, with rapidly rising housing inequality, and residential segregation increasingly prevalent in previously homogeneous Chinese cities. It focuses on the two extremes of the residential landscape, and reveals the stark contrast between low-income households who live in shacks in so-called ‘urban villages’ and the nouveaux riches who live in exclusive gated villa communities. Over four parts, the contributors look at the degree to which inequality affects Chinese cities, and the extent of residential differentiation; housing for the urban poor, and in particular, housing for migrants from rural China; housing for the rapidly expanding Chinese middle class and the new rich; and finally, governance in residential neighbourhoods. Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities presents theoretically informed and empirically grounded research into the polarized residential landscape in Chinese cities, and as such will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, urban geography, urban sociology, and urban studies.

Download or read book Poverty and Development in China written by Caizhen Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s research compares four approaches to poverty assessment: China’s official poverty identification method, the participatory approach to poverty assessment, the monetary approach, and use of multidimensional poverty indicators. Each of these is applied to the same population of households to identify the poor in rural Wuding County, Yunnan Province. The analysis shows that there is in fact very little overlap of households identified as poor by the various means, and that choice of approach does matter in the outcome of who is identified as poor. This has implications at the theoretical, methodological, and policy levels. Lu discusses these in detail, concluding that at present, there is a need to shift away from poverty reduction strategies that narrowly emphasize income generation activities, as these are often short-term efforts. Instead, the focus should move towards a broader combination of short-term and long-term strategies to break poverty’s inter-linked structural causes.

Download or read book Reconsidering Roots written by Erica L. Ball and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The 1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster miniseries—it was a galvanizing national event, drawing a record-shattering viewership, earning thirty-eight Emmy nominations, and changing overnight the discourse on race, civil rights, and slavery. These essays—from emerging and established scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies—interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power in the United States and abroad. Taken together, the essays ask us to reconsider the limitations and possibilities of this work, which, although dogged by controversy, must be understood as one of the most extraordinary media events of the late twentieth century, a cultural touchstone of enduring significance. Contributors: Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, Elise Chatelain, Robert K. Chester, Clare Corbould, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Delia Mellis, Francesca Morgan, Tyler D. Parry, Martin Stollery, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Bhekuyise Zungu

Download or read book State Market Interactions in China s Reform Era written by Junmin Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a case study of China’s tobacco industry, this book analyses how the Chinese government was able to cultivate big state-owned firms that have successfully embraced the global market. The success of the Chinese economy and the many state-owned firms within it have given rise to a "Beijing Consensus," challenging almost every principle enshrined in the so-called "Washington Consensus" that espouses private ownership, free markets, and democracy. By examining two important political processes in contemporary China, ‘local state competition’ and ‘global-market building’, the book argues that the first process serves as a crucial basis for the second. It illustrates how the local governments involved themselves in building and shaping the tobacco market throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and how these domestic market dynamics created conditions for China’s recent embrace of the international market. Offering an in-depth exploration of the political-economic processes in a key Chinese state industry, the book emphasizes that the key to understanding China’s political transition is to look at how the state has been shaped by its market-building projects both domestically and globally. It presents an important contribution to studies on Chinese Business and International Political Economy.