Through a Window
Through a Window
“Never the typical Chinese family” is Graham Chan's description of his family. Graham's mother was born in Britain and could not speak nor understand Cantonese. Graham's father owns a restaurant, can speak Cantonese and English, but never wanted Graham or his mother to work in their family business. Graham and his siblings do not speak nor understand Cantonese. He recounts the story of his parents' childhood and how their family got to Britain, and tells of his efforts to learn how to speak Cantonese. He talks about his experiences when he went to Hong Kong for a work assignment and then notes of the crippling effects of not being able to speak Cantonese as well as the difficulties he had in combining the two cultures, British and Chinese.
Keywords: Chinese family, Graham Chan, Britain, Cantonese, English, Hong Kong
California Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
