Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780824832896)

Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions, and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her grandmother in pre-Independence Malaya. It was a tumultuous period when the occupying Japanese army had just been defeated, the British colonial government was losing its grip on the country, and a communist guerilla insurgency had broken out in the jungles of the Malay Peninsula. Her stories follow the family's move to the United States and a journey to China to visit her father's ancestral home.

The family's migrations are part of the global diaspora of the Hakkas, known in China as the Guest People. Chin's poetically and amusingly rendered accounts of Hakka history, language, and mythology, derived from research and oral history, are a moving tribute to the endurance of her people and their culture, and a paean to the incomparable Hakka cuisine.

Author: Woon Ping Chin
ISBN-10: 0824832892
ISBN-13: 9780824832896
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 08/07/2008
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 58