Sat, 27 Feb, 2010 - 00:00
Review: Terry Prone
Jan Wong’s parents had done their best to help their daughter maintain links with the family’s origins.
“Linguistically torturing offspring is an overseas Chinese tradition, the solemn duty of the Chinese diaspora,” she ruefully observes.
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