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On Gold Mountain
Author | : Lisa See |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2014-08-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781101910085 |
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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.
Gold Mountain
Author | : Betty G. Yee |
Publsiher | : Carolrhoda Lab ® |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781728451015 |
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Working on the Transcontinental Railroad promises a fortune—for those who survive. Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America. Life on “the Gold Mountain” is grueling and dangerous. To build the railroad that will connect the west coast to the east, Ling Fan and other Chinese laborers lay track and blast tunnels through the treacherous peaks of the Sierra Nevada, facing cave-ins, avalanches, and blizzards—along with hostility from white Americans. When someone threatens to expose Ling Fan’s secret, she must take an even greater risk to save what’s left of her family . . . and to escape the Gold Mountain alive.
On Gold Mountain
Author | : Lisa See |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : 0099409828 |
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When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family`s antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colourful stories about their family`s past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa`s great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States, and how his son followed him. As an adult, See spent fives years collecting the details of her family`s remarkable history. She interviewd nearly one hundred relatives and pored over documents at the National Archives, the immigration office, and in countless attics, basements, and closets for the initmate nuances of her ancestors` lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portriat that is att once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America - and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.
Escape to Gold Mountain
Author | : David H. T. Wong |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1551524767 |
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An epic graphic novel about the experience of Chinese immigrants in North America over the past 150 years.
Ghosts of Gold Mountain
Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9781328618573 |
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A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
Tales from Gold Mountain
Author | : Paul Yee |
Publsiher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781554982431 |
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Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the IODE National Chapter Award Drawing on the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the railway and the settling of the west coast in the nineteenth century, noted historian and children’s author Paul Yee has created eight original stories that combine the rough-and-tumble adventure of frontier life with the rich folk traditions that these immigrants brought from China. These tales are funny, sad, romantic and earthy, but ultimately, as a collection, they reflect the gritty optimism of the Chinese who overcame prejudice and adversity to build a unique place for themselves in North America.
Gold Mountain Blues
Author | : Ling Zhang |
Publsiher | : Penguin Canada |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2011-10-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780143185840 |
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A sweeping, tragic novel spanning five generations and two continents Gold Mountain Blues is a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guangdong Province, which are transformed by the promise of a better life in Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for Canada’s majestic West Coast. In 1879, 16-year-old Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada determined to make a life for himself and to support his family back home. He will blast rocks for the Pacific Railway, launder linens for his countrymen, and save every penny he makes to reunite his family because his heart remains in China. From the 1860s to the present day, Gold Mountain Blues relates the struggles and sacrifices of the labourers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway and who laid the groundwork for the evolution of the modern Chinese-Canadian identity. A novel about family, hope, and sacrifice, Gold Mountain Blues is a marvellous saga from a remarkable new Canadian voice.
Surviving on the Gold Mountain
Author | : Huping Ling |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791438635 |
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The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.