Egg Woman's Daughter: A Tanka Memoir - Softcover
Mary Chan Ma-lai wasn't given her own name. Her family called her Ah Ngan, "tiny and thin." She was born in 1950 on Little Salted Fish Street in Macao, to a Tanka family. The Tanka were the boat dwellers of China, living on wooden scows and junks in the great Chinese port cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong. Considered inferior, they were not permitted to settle on land or marry land dwellers. Mary's family is desperately poor. Mary is nearly blind from cataracts and stooped over from osteoporosis. One could not imagine a less privileged life. Yet Mary Chan Ma-lai's is an indomitable spirit.
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Mary Chan Ma-lai graduated St. Francis' Canossian College in Hong Kong and taught English. She died in September 2000. She was fifty.
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- PublisherBookworld Services
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 9627160539
- ISBN 13 9789627160533
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages263
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 263 pages, illustrated. "When Mary was two years old her eyes clouded over. She was left blind in one eye and partially sighted in another. With brutual honesty and wry humor, Mary tells the story of herself and her family against the backdrop of a brash and rising Hong Kong." FINE SOFTCOVER Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 032107
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