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
0 有用 法萊詩蒂 2018-08-05 19:18:58
作者作為一個客家移民後代,長在馬六甲。本書講的主要是她小時候的故事,作為一個客家人在東南亞長大的故事,因此有次詞彙用的是客家話而不是英文。書中也有客家美食菜譜。可惜作者的祖籍是Ma Di Ao,不太知道在哪
0 有用 法萊詩蒂 2018-08-05 19:18:58
作者作為一個客家移民後代,長在馬六甲。本書講的主要是她小時候的故事,作為一個客家人在東南亞長大的故事,因此有次詞彙用的是客家話而不是英文。書中也有客家美食菜譜。可惜作者的祖籍是Ma Di Ao,不太知道在哪