"I am walking backwards into China": Identity Recovery and the Return of Shirley Lim Geok-lin

Ying Xin Show

doi:10.6752/JCS.201512_(21).0010

"I am walking backwards into China": Identity Recovery and the Return of Shirley Lim Geok-lin

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-237
Journal	ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6752/JCS.201512_(21).0010
Publication status	Published - 2015

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