LEADER 02904nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910779253403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8214-4444-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104668 035 $a(EBL)1743717 035 $a(OCoLC)821735508 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703614 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475513 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703614 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690524 035 $a(PQKB)11634150 035 $a(OCoLC)808349052 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18627 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743717 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10577744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743717 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104668 100 $a20120604d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPaper sons and daughters$b[electronic resource] $egrowing up Chinese in South Africa /$fUfrieda Ho 210 $aAthens $cOhio University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 225 1 $aModern African writing 300 $aOriginally published: Johannesburg, South Africa : Picador Africa, 2011. 311 $a0-8214-2020-8 327 $aPinky -- 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. 330 $aUfrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970's and 1980's. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain jobs, living in a kind of gray zone between the blacks and the whites. As long as they adhered to these rules, they were left alone. Ho describes the separate journeys her parents took before they knew one another, each leaving China and Hong Kong around the early1960's, arriving in South A 410 0$aModern African writing. 606 $aChinese$zSouth Africa$vBiography 606 $aChinese$zSouth Africa$xEthnic identity 606 $aChinese$zSouth Africa$xHistory 607 $aSouth Africa$xRace relations 607 $aSouth Africa$vBiography 615 0$aChinese 615 0$aChinese$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aChinese$xHistory. 676 $a305.895/1068092 676 $aB 700 $aHo$b Ufrieda$01515775 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779253403321 996 $aPaper sons and daughters$93751780 997 $aUNINA