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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Ufrieda.

Series:

Modern African writing.

Modern African writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--South Africa--Biography.

Chinese.

Chinese--South Africa--Ethnic identity.

Chinese--South Africa--History.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

South Africa--Biography.

Ho, Ufrieda.

Ho, Ufrieda--Family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 1970's and 1980's. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain jobs, living in a kind of gray zone between the blacks and the whites. As long as they adhered to these rules, they were left alone. Ho describes the separate journeys her parents took before they knew one another, each leaving China and Hong Kong around the early1960's, arriving in South A

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:

9780821444443

0821444441

OCLC:

821735508