{"product_id":"dear-you-teochew-gaginang-li-9798199373326","title":"Dear You Teochew: The Heart, the Heritage, and the Living Voice of Teochew","description":"Within fifteen years, the last generation that lived inside Teochew culture as a daily medium will be gone. The grandmothers who knew the village. The fathers who knew the language. The aunts who knew the recipes without measuring. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe diaspora is one funeral away, each week, from another irreplaceable voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Dear You Teochew* arrives exactly at the closing window. Six years of fieldwork across Chaoshan, Bangkok, Singapore, Penang, Hong Kong, Paris, and Long Beach distilled into a single literary work - at once an intimate cultural history and a practical companion for the diaspora descendant ready to move from passive inheritor to active keeper of the song. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pen name on the cover, *Gaginang Li*, carries the most identity-laden phrase in the Teochew lexicon: \u003cbr\u003e家己人 - *our own people*, *one of us*. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is its own most condensed dedication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Dear You Teochew* is for the granddaughter in Paris whose Cambodian-born mother forgot to teach her Teochew because there was rent to pay and a new alphabet to learn. For the grandson in Bangkok who can order from any food cart in three languages but does not know the name of the dialect his great-grandfather spoke when he stepped off the junk in 1923. For the woman in San Francisco who keeps her grandmother's porcelain teacups in a glass cabinet and has never used them. For the man in São Paulo who can taste his childhood in one specific dish whose recipe he cannot reproduce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is, in the end, for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of an inheritance and wondered whether they were still allowed to claim it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf that is you, this book is yours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBegin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gaginang Li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199373326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Gaginang Li","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001940091135,"sku":"9798199373326","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dear-you-teochew-gaginang-li-9798199373326","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}