kris_inwood , to anthropology group
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Kinship matters! Tianning Zhu (LSE) uses clan-based genealogical accounts to identify kinship networks underpinning 19th & early 20th-century migration from Guangdong to Malaysia, SE Asia & elsewhere in China, at the 2024 Canadian Economics Association meeting in Toronto.
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Tianning Zhu shows a sample geneaological card from which she infers kin-based migration networks from Guangdong to Southeast Asia, June 1 at the Canadian Economics Association annual meeting in Toronto

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I find I can't stomach most fiction anymore, especially anything written since about 1990. But Vanessa Chan's "The Storm We Made" is a powerful exception. Minutely and lovingly observed and the emotional punches it delivers are all earned and deserved.

It's set in in the 1930s during the British colonial period (when it was still called "Malaya") and the wartime occupation of the 1940s, and its principal characters are Malay and Japanese. So right away that sets it apart from anything I've ever read before.

What's more, most of the principal characters from whose points of view we see the story are women and girls.

It is so rare, in language fiction, to have a glimpse into the dynamics of when it's not practiced by a Western state.

The is beautifully narrated by Samantha Tan, a woman of ancestry.

Would love to hear thoughts on this book.

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