Bittersweet

The Memoir of a Chinese-Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century

• Author(s): Stuart Pearson,
• Publisher: NUS Press
• Pages: 287
• ISBN_10: 9971694255
  ISBN_13: 9789971694258
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , History / Asia / Southeast Asia , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies ,

Description:... The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times, and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. While many of them prospered in their new home, it was against a background of uncertainty and a feeling that they were not entirely welcome in their adopted homeland. BitterSweet is the poignant story of one Chinese familys life in Indonesia, and of their eventual emigration to Australia.