Paper Sons and Daughters – Growing up Chinese in South Africa Ho Paperback

Paper Sons and DaughtersGrowing Up Chinese in South Africa\nAuthor(s): Ufrieda Ho\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821420201, 978-0821420201\nSynopsis\nUfrieda 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 1970s and 1980s. 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.\n Ho describes the separate journeys her parents took before they knew one another, each leaving China and Hong Kong around the early 1960s, arriving in South Africa as illegal immigrants. Her father eventually became a so-called \""fahfee man,\"" running a small-time numbers game in the black townships, one of the few opportunities av.