The Reluctant Migrant\'s Daughter Li only realised who her parents were when she was five.
Finally, Li\'s self-exploration enables her to recognise why she has always felt such a connection to China, a country she finally visited at the age of 45..
She sounds a warning to immigrants who visualise a new, untroubled life, and suggests patience to host nations, where the traumas of new residents might not be known or understood.
Li offers her story to give voice to events experienced by many but seldom discussed.
Now in her early eighties, Li reflects on her life, from the early years of physical abuse and psychological deprivation, through the joys and trials of marriage, travel, racism, depression, and her hopes for her grandchildren\'s generation.
Yet, Li remained loyal to her husband, raising four children while gaining university degrees in Singapore and Sydney.
Li\'s marriage was at times blighted by her relationship with her mother-in-law.
She found the loving paternal figure she craved in the father of her future husband, only to lose him after a few years.
After a lonely childhood, Li had happy times at high school.
Generally ignored by her elders, but regularly beaten and cursed by her guardian, Li still became infused with her father\'s longing to return to Shanghai, the home he left only reluctantly.
The fifth of eight children to migrants from China, Li grew up in her family\'s shophouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.
The Reluctant Migrant\'s Daughter Li only realised who her parents were when she was five
