Lane With No Name

by Tham, Hilary

• ISBN13: 9780894108303
• ISBN10: 0894108301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Three Continents Pr

Table of Contents

List of Photographs	viii	(1)
List of Poems	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
Prologue	1	(4)
1 Before the Web	5	(10)
2 The Soy Sauce Compound	15	(6)
3 Lane with No Name	23	(4)
4 Family Labels	27	(6)
5 The Odd-Job Man	33	(4)
6 Egg Noodles	37	(4)
7 Nursery Rhymes & Proverbs Cantonese	41	(8)
8 India Next Door	49	(4)
9 Chickens	53	(4)
10 Leila's Wedding	57	(10)
11 Hot Water	67	(4)
12 Grandfather Au	71	(8)
13 Grandmother Tries to Give My Sisters Away	79	(6)
14 Jadegreen Plumblossom	85	(6)
15 The Nuns	91	(4)
16 Of Monks & Feet	95	(6)
17 The Corner Coffee Shop	101	(4)
18 The Hole in the Wall	105	(4)
19 The Bad Window	109	(4)
20 Chinese Medicine	113	(10)
21 Earth Dragon, Metal Monkey	123	(6)
22 The Joyful Vanguards	129	(6)
23 The House on Palace Road	135	(6)
24 Chinese New Year	141	(8)
25 The Needs of the Dead	149	(12)
26 Final Days	161	(6)
27 The Lore of the Dead	167	(6)
28 Bare Feet & Broken Glass	173	(20)
29 The Writing Life	193	(6)
30 A Retrospective Interview	199	(12)
About the Author	211