Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; ON BEING; To Be American; Why I Stopped Being Chinese; Citizenship; BG; Default Home; Letter from America; Winter Moon; The Summers of My Discontent; The Crying City; MUM AND Me; Typhoon Mum; Maternity Leave; My Mother's Story; Mum and Me; Precarious Precision; Journeys through Past Times; Home Base; And Then, Filial Time; Off-Season with Snake; Waiting Women; For As Long As We Both Shall Live; WO/MAN ROARS; Feminism and Faith; On Being Fowl; Concubine Love; ORIGINS; A Ledge, a Nun

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