{"product_id":"dear-you-teochew-the-heart-the-heritage-and-the-living-voice-of-teochew-9798199373326","title":"Dear You Teochew: The Heart, the Heritage, and the Living Voice of Teochew","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gaginang Li\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional - Asian \u0026amp; Asian American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin fifteen years, the last generation that lived inside Teochew culture as a daily medium will be gone. The grandmothers who knew the village. The fathers who knew the language. The aunts who knew the recipes without measuring. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe diaspora is one funeral away, each week, from another irreplaceable voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Dear You Teochew* arrives exactly at the closing window. Six years of fieldwork across Chaoshan, Bangkok, Singapore, Penang, Hong Kong, Paris, and Long Beach distilled into a single literary work - at once an intimate cultural history and a practical companion for the diaspora descendant ready to move from passive inheritor to active keeper of the song. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe pen name on the cover, *Gaginang Li*, carries the most identity-laden phrase in the Teochew lexicon: \u003cbr\u003e家己人 - *our own people*, *one of us*. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book is its own most condensed dedication. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*Dear You Teochew* is for the granddaughter in Paris whose Cambodian-born mother forgot to teach her Teochew because there was rent to pay and a new alphabet to learn. For the grandson in Bangkok who can order from any food cart in three languages but does not know the name of the dialect his great-grandfather spoke when he stepped off the junk in 1923. For the woman in San Francisco who keeps her grandmother's porcelain teacups in a glass cabinet and has never used them. For the man in S�o Paulo who can taste his childhood in one specific dish whose recipe he cannot reproduce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is, in the end, for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of an inheritance and wondered whether they were still allowed to claim it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf that is you, this book is yours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBegin.","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968755843223,"sku":"9798199373326","price":1438.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199373326.webp?v=1782919288","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dear-you-teochew-the-heart-the-heritage-and-the-living-voice-of-teochew-9798199373326","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}