Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China by Low, Kelvin E. Y.

Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774825757)

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Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China by Low, Kelvin E. Y.

Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

$99.00
Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China by Low, Kelvin E. Y.

Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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Remembering the Samsui Women tells the story of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China, who migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, while others worked in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as "red-head-scarf," after the headgear that protected them from the sun. Contributing to current debates in the fields of social memory and migration studies, this is the first book to examine how the Samsui women remember their own migratory experiences and how they, in turn, are remembered as pioneering figures in both Singapore and China.

Author: Kelvin E. Y. Low
ISBN-10: 0774825758
ISBN-13: 9780774825757
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2014
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d
By Kelvin E. Y. Low
By Kelvin E. Y. Low
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Kelvin E. Y. Low is an assistant professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Scents and Scent-sibilities: Smell and Everyday Life Experiences and coeditor of Everyday Life in Asia: Social Perspectives on the Senses.

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