Reproducing Chinese Culture in Diaspora: Sustainable Agriculture and Petrified Culture in Northern Thailand

by Shu-min Huang

Reproducing Chinese Culture in Diaspora describes how a group of anti-communist Chinese nationals managed to establish a farming community in Thailand's northern hills after voluntary exile from communist China in 1949. Though successful from an agricultural sustainability standpoint, this community of Chinese exiles has rigidly maintained its cultural ideals, driving away younger generations and ultimately threatening to derail the community's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739125990
• ISBN13: 9780739125991
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"