On Gold Mountain
The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
See, Lisa
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BOOK SUMMARY
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
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Astonishing....A comprehensive and exhaustively researched account of a Chinese-American family...that juggles such explosive elements as race, class, tradition, prejudice, poverty, and great wealth in new and relatively unexpected combinations."--The Los Angeles Times
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679768521
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679768524
Copyright: 1996
Dewey Decimal: 929/.2/0899510795
Library of Congress: 96011821
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 394
Paper Weight (lb): 0.95
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