"The accounts of Chinese child-rearing practices and the author's imagined relationship to Portugal, and of her travels there, are very moving, wonderfully detailed, and very thought-provoking. Maria Ng identifies through anecdote two very different colon

"Maria Ng's Pilgrimages is an exquisite riff on the genre of the postcolonial memoir, pulsating with vivid reflections on a childhood and youth in colonial Macau and Hong Kong. She takes the multilayered canvas of a life lived at the intersection of Chine

"Ng is understandably nostalgic about the sentimental associations of her formative years; she is also wise--the way we tend to be in hindsight--about the uneven economic and intercultural realities that shaped even her fondest memories. Above all, she is a

Maria N. Ng is associate professor of English at University of Lethbridge, Canada.