Publisher's Synopsis
10th Anniversary Edition with author's black and white photography of Singapore. Shortlisted for Ireland's Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. "If there is ever a book for the Singaporean overseas or those preparing to leave home, this will be it. Read Wena Poon's classic, Lions In Winter." Overseas Singaporean Magazine "The exile returns to illuminate an intimate part of Singapore, and does so quite beautifully." TIME Magazine These stories, about Singaporean Chinese emigrés in the West, were written in America and published in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the time, nobody was interested in examining the role and identity of the modern, English-speaking Chinese outside of Asia. Since then, the diaspora of Chinese youth has grown too large to ignore, fueled by the dramatic increase in Chinese students in the universities of US, UK, Canada and Australia. Lions in Winter is but one facet of a modern, transnational Chinese identity that has just begun to take shape.
