'Chinese go home': Mass deportations of ethnic Chinese during the Malayan Emergency + Film screening
Wed 14 May
|Room 309, Building 19, Waseda University
This talk and accompanying film "Chinese go home" (18 mins, dir. R. Leow) explore the history of mass deportations of ethnic Chinese to China during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960).
Date and Venue
14 May 2025, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9
Room 309, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)
Rachel Leow is an Associate Professor of Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge. She is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Asian Migration and Diaspora, c. 1300s-2000s with Emma Teng, and her second monograph, Southern Seas: Chinese encounters on diaspora's horizons, is forthcoming with the University of California Press and Penguin Allen Lane.
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