TY - JOUR
T1 - "I am walking backwards into China": Identity Recovery and the Return of Shirley Lim Geok-lin
AU - Show, YingXin
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Searching "China" in her hometown Malacca and her then residing place Hong Kong, Shirley Lim Geok-lin understands that this pursuit inevitably brings about an imperialist desire. Her guilty "return" to the Chinese culture only reveals to her that the imaginary China is no longer there, as the reality she experiences in real "China" does not tally with the one in Malacca.
AB - Searching "China" in her hometown Malacca and her then residing place Hong Kong, Shirley Lim Geok-lin understands that this pursuit inevitably brings about an imperialist desire. Her guilty "return" to the Chinese culture only reveals to her that the imaginary China is no longer there, as the reality she experiences in real "China" does not tally with the one in Malacca.
U2 - 10.6752/JCS.201512_(21).0010
DO - 10.6752/JCS.201512_(21).0010
M3 - Article
VL - 21
SP - 233
EP - 237
JO - ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies
IS - 1
ER -