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A Nyonya In Texas: Insights Of A Straits Chinese Woman In The Lone Star State

A Nyonya In Texas: Insights Of A Straits Chinese Woman In The Lone Star State

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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! 

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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! 

 

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

Paperback

2007

ISBN: 9789833346103

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