Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa

Contents

Contents Acknowledgements vii 1. Pinky 1 2. Here be Dragons 3 3. A Long Way from Here 21 4. A Strange New Home 38 5. Another Journey across the Indian Ocean 46 6. In the City of Gold 63 7. Of Phoenixes and Dragons 81 8. Growing up with Mr and Mrs Ho 91 9. Johnny Depp, Segregation and Sequins 107 10. My Father, the Fahfee Man 125 11. Weekend Dad 137 12. Another Day, Another Dollar 148 13. Mah Jong and Ponies 158 14. The Outside Toilet 167 15. The Hand that History Deals 175 16. The Dark Night 195 17. A New Day 208 18. The Under-catered Party 214 Dear Ah Ba 226 For my mother and my father ...