Paper sons and daughters : growing up Chinese in South Africa / Ufrieda Ho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Ufrieda.

Series:

Modern African writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ho, Ufrieda.

Ho, Ufrieda--Family.

Chinese--South Africa--Biography.

Chinese--South Africa--Ethnic identity.

Chinese--South Africa--History.

Chinese.

History.

Ethnicity.

Families.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Race relations.

South Africa--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This memoir attracted considerable attention when it was first published in South Africa in 2011, and it will resonate with anyone interested in the worldwide Chinese diaspora. It tells the story of a stowaway, Ho Sing Kee, who hid for long weeks aboard a ship crossing the Indian Ocean. Leaving behind his village and his ancestors, he looked to the "mountain of gold" in Johannesburg as an escape from his bleak life in devastated 1950s China. In South Africa he became a "paper son," a literal translation of the phrase used to refer to the illegal immigrants who bought or borrowed new identities from more established Chinese families to avoid detection by the authorities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pinky

Here be Dragons

A Long Way from Here

A Strange New Home

Another Journey across the Indian Ocean

In the City of Gold

Of Phoenixes and Dragons

Growing up with Mr. and Mrs. Ho

Johnny Depp, Segregation and Sequins

My Father, the Fahfee Man

Weekend Dad

Another Day, Another Dollar

Mah Jong and Ponies

The Outside Toilet

The Hand that History Deals

The Dark Night

A New Day

The Under-catered Party

Dear Ah Ba.

Notes:

Originally published: Johannesburg, South Africa : Picador Africa, 2011.

ISBN:

0821420208

9780821420201

9780821444443

0821444441

OCLC:

792881716

Publisher Number:

99952515516