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182 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits. Summary: Helene Wong was born in New Zealand in 1949, to parents whose families had emigrated from China one or two generations earlier. Preferring invisibility, she grew up resisting her Chinese identity. But in 1980 she travelled to her father's home in southern China and came face to face with her ancestral past. What followed was a journey to come to terms with being Chinese. (Publisher)