Doing Lifework in Malaysia

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvSouchou Yao

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The result is a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that cover a broad range of social actors, among them a Tamil domestic servant, the film maker Jasmin Ahmed, a Malay corporate wheeler-and-dealer turned ecologist, a group of Chinese traders in the Sarawak interior and a female ex-communist insurgent.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-28
Mått148 x 210 x 12 mm
Vikt266 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor190
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811920899

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Souchou Yao is a writer and a former staff member of the Department of Anthropology, the University of Sydney, Australia. Among his publications are Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess (2007), The Malayan Emergency: Essay on a Small, Distant war (2016), On Brittle Ground: My China Journey (2017), The Shop on High Street: At Home with Petite Capitalism (2020). He lives with his wife, the artist Simryn Gill, in Port Dickson, Malaysia, and Sydney, Australia.

Part I. You, Me, and Others.- Chapter 1. I Am My World: On Writing Ethnography.- Chapter 2. Doing Lunch with Jasmin Ahmad.- Chapter 3. A Lowborn Life.- Chapter 4. The Education of J. Kuna Rajah Naidu.- Chapter 5. Appetite.- Chapter 6. The Perils of Ethnic Crossover.- Part II. Under the Sign of China.- Chapter 7. Hotel Belaga.- Chapter 8. Home and Solitude.- Chapter 9. The Repressed Must Return.- Chapter 10. Scar of Memory.