About the Book

This book is a reflection on what it was like to grow up in a traditional Chinese family in Malaya and Singapore in the 1930s and 1940s and the cultural differences between that environment and life in Australia after moving there in 1954 for further education and employment, especially as Australia had then the White Australia policy, and was not the multicultural society it is today.

It also comments on life and experiences working as an Australian Trade Commissioner in China in the 1980s and early 1990s when the People's Republic of China began to open up to the West. His knowledge of the Chinese language and of the differences between Chinese and Australian cultures allowed him to have a more intimate insight into the so-called inscrutable Chinese thinking.