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Paper Sons and Daughters : Growing up Chinese in South Africa.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern African Writing SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444443
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paper Sons and DaughtersDDC classification:
  • 305.895/1068092 B
LOC classification:
  • DT1768.C55H6 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Pinky -- 2. Here be Dragons -- 3. A Long Way from Here -- 4. A Strange New Home -- 5. Another Journey across the Indian Ocean -- 6. In the City of Gold -- 7. Of Phoenixes and Dragons -- 8. Growing up with Mr and Mrs Ho -- 9. Johnny Depp, Segregation and Sequins -- 10. My Father, the Fahfee Man -- 11. Weekend Dad -- 12. Another Day, Another Dollar -- 13. Mah Jong and Ponies -- 14. The Outside Toilet -- 15. The Hand that History Deals -- 16. The Dark Night -- 17. A New Day -- 18. The Under-catered Party -- Dear Ah Ba.
Summary: Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Pinky -- 2. Here be Dragons -- 3. A Long Way from Here -- 4. A Strange New Home -- 5. Another Journey across the Indian Ocean -- 6. In the City of Gold -- 7. Of Phoenixes and Dragons -- 8. Growing up with Mr and Mrs Ho -- 9. Johnny Depp, Segregation and Sequins -- 10. My Father, the Fahfee Man -- 11. Weekend Dad -- 12. Another Day, Another Dollar -- 13. Mah Jong and Ponies -- 14. The Outside Toilet -- 15. The Hand that History Deals -- 16. The Dark Night -- 17. A New Day -- 18. The Under-catered Party -- Dear Ah Ba.

Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s.

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