I also like how she excelled despite her weaknesses.
However, her best quality is that she never let her trials and tragedies get to her. She does have a temper, which is often looked down upon. She was a woman whom I could relate with. Chye Hoon struggles to maintain her identity and her tradition as her country becomes more modernized. However, her hardships are just beginning. Chye Hoon decides to run a business as a cook. Her husband dies in China leaving Chye Hoon alone with ten children. When business brings Chye Hoon’s husband back to China, she dreads him leaving, for she fears she would never see him again. Their marriage was peaceful and they had ten children.
He had left his family there and planned to make a new one with Chye Hoon in Malaya. When a husband was found for her, he was a Chinese man who already had a wife and son in China. She was unsuitable because she had shown her temper in public. When she grew older, she had a hard time finding a husband. Because she was a girl, she learned how to cook instead. She also yearns to go to school to learn how to read and write like her brother, Chong Jin. Chye Hoon is a young girl in Malaya who learns about her distinct heritage. My Review: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds tells the story of Chye Hoon, a woman of mixed Chinese and Malayan heritage. Chye Hoon finds herself afraid of losing the heritage she so prizes as her children move more and more into the modernising Western world. At last, she can pass on the stories she has heard-magical tales of men from the sea-and her warrior’s courage, along with her wonderful kueh (cakes).īut the cultural shift towards the West has begun. Synopsis: Facing challenges in an increasingly colonial world, Chye Hoon, a rebellious young girl, must learn to embrace her mixed Malayan-Chinese identity as a Nyonya-and her destiny as a cook, rather than following her first dream of attending school like her brother.Īmidst the smells of chillies and garlic frying, Chye Hoon begins to appreciate the richness of her traditions, eventually marrying Wong Peng Choon, a Chinese man. The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds (Malayan #1)
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