All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South AfricaNew Africa Books, 2004 - 283 pages All Under Heaven is the story of a Chinese family in South Africa from the early twentieth century to the first years of the twenty-first. It follows the lives of three generations in a country where Chinese once were classified 'non-white' and now are deemed not to have been 'previously disadvantaged'. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 15 |
Section 4 | 23 |
Section 5 | 32 |
Section 6 | 42 |
Section 7 | 49 |
Section 8 | 63 |
Section 16 | 145 |
Section 17 | 152 |
Section 18 | 158 |
Section 19 | 162 |
Section 20 | 171 |
Section 21 | 186 |
Section 22 | 196 |
Section 23 | 208 |
Section 9 | 68 |
Section 10 | 79 |
Section 11 | 96 |
Section 12 | 109 |
Section 13 | 125 |
Section 14 | 130 |
Section 15 | 132 |
Section 24 | 221 |
Section 25 | 235 |
Section 26 | 251 |
Section 27 | 265 |
Section 28 | 281 |
Common terms and phrases
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