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Flora learns
of the wartime occupation of the island, the native cock fighting, and
the unspoken social dynamics that account for a cook and an amah known
only as "cook" and "amah. The discoveries at Amah included pottery, clay pipes, and a broken
copper bangle. " Ying-ying's Amah tries to
tame her into conformity to traditional Chinese gender roles:
"Haven't I taught you--that it is wrong to think of your own
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