商品簡介
On May 3, 1975, Hong Kong received its first cohort of 3,743 Vietnamese boatpeople. The incident opened a 25-year history that belongs to a larger context of forced migration in modern social history. By researching all possible textual material available
作者簡介
Sophia Suk-mun Law is Associate Professor at the Department of Visual Studies of Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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What Dr. Law had discovered within hundreds of pages of articles, poems, songs, and short essays written in Vietnamese were shocking evidences of human tragedies. They were not the cry for help of an individual but of a generation of Vietnamese people. Most of them were children, young men, and young women who were disrobed of basic human rights and had to waste the most beautiful years of their lives in various detention camps in Hong Kong.
—Dr. Tung Buu, Former Vietnamese refugee in Hong Kong