The Hakkas of Sarawak : : Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia / / Kee Howe Yong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Yong, Kee Howe,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropological Horizons
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Overseas Chinese --; Chapter Two. The Greater Malaysia Plan --; Chapter Three. The Sri Aman Treaty --; Chapter Four. Any Other Day at the Bus Station --; Chapter Five. What's There to Tell? --; Chapter Six. Virtuous Subjects --; Chapter Seven. Sites of Impermanence --; Chapter Eight. Facing the Artefact --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442667976; 9783110649772
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442667976
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kee Howe Yong.

This 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.The Hakkas of Sarawak looks 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.