Choo states that the 'search for [her] Asian ancestors and [her] discoveries in archives, the crumbling pages, the eroding ink, the disappearance of the word, are a metaphor for the simultaneous emergence of the will to recover memories and the slow fading away of the material traces of memory. [...] This paper presents Eurasians and their experiences as transcultural or in the middle ground - the space where new ways of being are developed and lived in a cross-cultural environment. It explores how the definition of Eurasian is changing in the context of contemporary globalised society' (Author's abstract).