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A Nyonya in Texas: Insights of a Straits Chinese Woman in the Lone Star State

Lee Su Kim

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A Nyonya in Texas: Insights of a Straits Chinese Woman in the Lone Star State

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A Nyonya’s witty journey through culture shock

If you enjoy warm, observant memoirs, Lee Su Kim’s Texas encounters will charm you. Her perspective as a Malaysian Nyonya, mother, and doctoral student makes everyday differences vivid. Expect humour, candour, and thoughtful reflections on belonging far from home.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

A Nyonya in Texas: Insights of a Straits Chinese Woman in the Lone Star State

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ISBN: 9789833346103
Author: Lee Su Kim
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Date of Publication: 2007-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Related Topics: Memoir, Autobiography, Memoir, Travelogue
Goodreads rating: 3.78
(rated by 27 readers)

Description

In 1996, Lee Su Kim, a Nyonya (ie. of Straits Chinese parentage), relocated to Texas in the US where she pursued a doctoral degree. With a young family in tow, she was doctoral student of English, wife, mother - and an alien. In this book, she describes the culture shock of moving into a country vastly different from her native country, Malaysia. She recounts some of the mystifying, amusing, reassuring or alarming experiences that she had in her new environment. The reader will laugh, though sometimes wryly!
 

A Nyonya’s witty journey through culture shock

If you enjoy warm, observant memoirs, Lee Su Kim’s Texas encounters will charm you. Her perspective as a Malaysian Nyonya, mother, and doctoral student makes everyday differences vivid. Expect humour, candour, and thoughtful reflections on belonging far from home.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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