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Yellow and Confused – Ming-Cheau Lin

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Yellow and Confused – Ming-Cheau Lin

Ming-Cheau Lin discusses her book 'Yellow and Confused'. (Camera: Kutlwano Matlala, Editing: Nicholas Boyd)

30th September 2019

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‘Strangers pulling their eyes slant at me when they walked by. They’d pretend to be Chinese and make fake nasal-pitched noises that they thought passed for an Asian language.’

Ming-Cheau Lin’s family emigrated from Tainan, Taiwan, to South Africa when she was three years old. Growing up in the '90s, in the largely Afrikaans Bloemfontein, within a small East Asian community, she was always the outsider. Too ‘yellow’ for the whites, but ‘not Asian enough’ when she didn’t conform to the rules of her first-generation Asian elders.

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Taiwanese or South African, good girl or rebel, creative or a disappointment? Ming-Cheau, widely known for her passion for Taiwanese home cooking and popular cookbook, Just Add Rice, shares her personal journey as she tries to understand and rise above the hurdles she has experienced. Yellow and Confused provides a colourful and engaging look into an authentic and uniquely South African life.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ming-Cheau Lin was born in Taiwan and is the author of Just Add Rice (2018). She grew up in Bloemfontein, is a freelance copywriter and runs a food blog butterfingers.co.za as a platform to share insights into Taiwanese culture through recipes and stories. She has a BA in creative brand communications, specialising in copy writing.

 

Yellow and Confused is published by NB Publishers

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