Joss and Gold

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Copyright © 2001 Shirley Geok-lin Lim Afterword copyright © 2001 Leong Liew Geok All rights reserved. Published by The Feminist Press at The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016 feministpress.org Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lim, Shirley. Joss and gold / Shirley Geok-lin Lim. p.cm. ISBN: 978-1-55861-401-7 1. Americans-Malaysia-Fiction. 2. Chinese-Malaysia-Fiction. 3. Women-Malaysia-Fiction.!. 4. Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia}-Fiction. Title. PS3562.I459 J6 2001 813'.54-dc21 00-069145 CIP This publication is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The Feminist Press would also like to thank Mariam K. Chamberlain, Helene D. Goldfarb, Florence Howe, Joanne Markell, and Genevieve Vaughan for their generosity in supporting this publication. Text design and composition by Dayna Navaro. Printed on acid-free paper by Transcontinental Printing in Canada. 06 05 04 03 02 01 6 5 4 3 2 1 N~TlONAL UDOWMliNT To Charles Bazerman, as always, with gratitude ...