Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals

by Chin Woon Ping

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824832892
• ISBN13: 9780824832896
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"