
The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided
Prix littéraires (romans), Canada (romans), Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Familles (biographies), Canadiens (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens
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Résumé
Chong traces her family's history from China to Canada. Her grandfather left his wife and emigrated to Canada, accompanied by the concubine he bought in 1924. In Canada, they stinted and sacrificed to support his family in China. Chong tells… of her grandparents and parents, and the visits she made to China to try to unite the strands of her family's past. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1994.