On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling...
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Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679768524 (0679768521)
Publish date: August 27th 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
China
I have enjoyed Lisa See's fiction, so when this book turned up on our office paperback trading shelf, I was very excited.See examines the experience of Chinese immigrants and Chinese-Americans through her own family's history. Starting with great-great-great grandfather Fong See coming to America t...
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