01964nam a2200265 i 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003800062040002500100082002000125100002600145245004500171264003800216264001100254300009700265336002100362337002500383338002300408520115600431600002501587600001901612651002101631651002501652655002101677OSt20231015111005.0231003t20222022enkboj e      000 0 eng d  a9780241544419cRM98.00qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a951.03309221 aLim, Teresa,eauthor.10aThe Interpreter's Daughter /cTERESA LIM 1a[London] :bMichael Joseph,c2022 4c©2022  axiii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : billustrations, maps (some colour), c24 cm  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  a"In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. Mounted on cream card, with the name of the studio stamped at the bottom in Chinese characters. The place and date on the back: Hong Kong, 1935. Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the told and retold family stories. Why? she wondered. This photograph set Teresa on a journey to uncover her family's remarkable history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers, she was guided to the fascinating, ordinary, extraordinary life of her great-aunt and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China. But to recover her great-aunt's past, we first must get to know Fanny's family, the times and circumstances in which they lived, and the momentous yet forgotten conflicts that would lead to war in Singapore and, ultimately, a long-buried family tragedy"--cPublisher's description1 aLim, Teresa xFamily0 aChang vFamily0 aChinaxBiography0 aSingaporexBiography 7aFamily histories