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All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa
 
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All Under Heaven: The Story of a Chinese Family in South Africa (Paperback)

by Darryl Accone (Author)
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This is the universal story of families that leave behind their home and community, in search of a better life. But it is also a secret history that is long overdue. In charged and elegant prose, Darryl Accone tells the story of his Chinese-South African family over three generations, from the early 1900s to today. He writes about the young boy Ah Leong, who left China in 1911 for the unknown land of South Africa. He also tells the story of his Prussian great-grandmother, whose family tried to have her marriage to a Chinese merchant from Mauritius annulled. This book also relates the wider story of the Chinese in South Africa: a discreet and secret history that is long overdue in the telling. "Neither Eastern nor Western, not Asian, not African, classified non-white in the old South Africa but not deemed previously disadvantaged in the new, we live in perpetual bifurcation. Home is here, at the tip of Africa, but also across the sea, as it was for my Kong Kong, my grandfather." This is beautifully written book, which, in the tradition of Maxine Hong Kingston, opens up a new world to the reader.


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Darryl Accone is a writer on the arts. He was formerly the editor of the Star's Tonight section, and edits Artsline, an online arts magazine. He is a former trustee of the Arts and Culture Trust. He currently teaches in the journalism programme at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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