1st Edition
China's Homeless Generation Voices from the veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s
By Joshua Fan
Copyright 2011
218 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
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Routledge
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China's Homeless Generation is a study of nearly two million Chinese who were displaced from home in Mainland China to the island of Taiwan. A result of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this massive migration began around 1948 and continued for more than a decade. The displacement officially lasted until November 1987, when... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Lijia—Leaving Home, 1940s 3. Wujiakegui—Homelessness, 1950s 4. Chengjia—Establishing Home, 1960s–1970s 5. Huijia—Returning Home, 1980s–1990s 6. Conclusion
Biography
Joshua Fan is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.
