ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a detailed description of her personal struggle in order to further a holistic analysis of the importance of gender in the unique colonial situation of the New Territories. How the radical sense and capacity of Chinese women, as Margery Wolf pointed out, are due precisely to the long and deep patriarchal suppression of them in their immediate household and community life will be discussed in detail.2 Unique as it may, the story of Deng Amei strikingly reveals the active agency of Chinese women in the making of the history of the New Territories at large.
