The Hakkas of Sarawak by Kee Howe Yong PAPERBACK 9781442615465

The Hakkas of Sarawak\nby Kee Howe Yong\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kee Howe Yong\nTitle: The Hakkas of Sarawak\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural anthropology\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442615465\nISBN-10: 144261546X\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThis book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into \u201Cnew villages\u201D surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be \u201Csacrificial gifts\u201D to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia\u2019s judici.