The Serial Entrepreneurship of Survival: From 1960s China to the Flight from Saigon

Описание: EPISODE SUMMARY Jin’s family oral history serves as a primary source for the Sino-Vietnamese diaspora. In Part 1, we explore Serial Entrepreneurship of Survival, moving beyond reductive refugee narratives to document the Teochew merchant class agency. We trace the economic migration from Hainan Island and Guangdong Province to the Cholon (Saigon) markets. This episode defines the strategic resourcefulness required to navigate the scarcity during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and Jìhuà Jīngjì (Planned Economy) as well as the displacement of refugees from Vietnam to Malaysia’s Pulao Bidong island and the pirates they faced in the Gulf of Thailand.
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HISTORICAL & SYSTEMIC CONTEXT Host Jess Lin provides contextual information on:
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: Impact on ethnic minority trade networks.
Chinese State Rationing (Scarcity Economics): The reality of survival under systemic constraints.
Maritime Risk Assessment and Refugee Displacement: The calculated merchant strategy behind the 1970s Saigon exodus.
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