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Author : Katherine Blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780741455109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain Girl written by Katherine Blanc and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family discovers that all the riches they seek are in their own back yard.
Author : Betty G. Yee
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 1728451019
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain written by Betty G. Yee and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099409823
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)
Download or read book On Gold Mountain written by Lisa See and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101910089
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book On Gold Mountain written by Lisa See and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mirandi Riwoe
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702263907
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Stone Sky Gold Mountain written by Mirandi Riwoe and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue gets a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
Author : Huping Ling
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438633
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Surviving on the Gold Mountain written by Huping Ling and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.
Author : Rhoda Bailey Warren
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613732392
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Appalachian Mountain Girl written by Rhoda Bailey Warren and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman’s “affecting and well-written” memoir of growing up with twelve siblings in rural Kentucky, and returning as an adult (Kirkus Reviews). Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth—but without sentimentality—Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda began to catch glimpses of the world outside her narrow mountain community through the stories in True Confessions magazine and the pictures in the Montgomery Ward catalog—which to her seemed like visions of a fairy world. Much later, after poverty drove her family to Wyoming and then Rhoda married and moved to a small town in New York State, it seemed that her dreams of a better life had finally been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always hovered in the back roads of her memory. When she revisited her homeland, this time as a New Yorker, Rhoda found that Letcher was no longer the place she recalled—and in this vivid memoir, she contemplates the relationship between our past and our present and the ways that our childhood stays with us forever.
Author : Lisa Rojany-Buccieri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780843139174
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Gold Diggers written by Lisa Rojany-Buccieri and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a motion picture by Barry Glasser, Gold Diggers is the story of two teenage girls, Beth and Jody, and their search for gold. Together, the girls set out on a treasure hunt that takes them on an exciting and dangerous adventure--one that will change their lives forever.
Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316052604
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book) written by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection! A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.
Author : Li Keng Wong
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 1561458740
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Good Fortune written by Li Keng Wong and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dramatic memoir of early-twentieth century immigration, author Li Keng Wong shares her family's difficult journey from rural China to a new life in California. In 1933, seven-year-old Li Keng's life changed forever when her father decided to bring his family from a small village in southern China to California. Getting to America was not easy, as their family faced America's strict anti-Chinese immigration laws that meant any misstep could mean deportation and disgrace. Life in America during the Great Depression brought many exciting surprises as well as many challenges. Hunger, poverty, police raids, frequent moves, and the occasional sting of racism were a part of everyday life, but slowly Li Keng and her family found stability and a true home in "Gold Mountain." An author's note contains photos and an update on Li Keng Wong's family. This evocative memoir presents the joys and sorrows of pursuing the American Dream during a time of racism and great poverty, but also immense opportunity. The book also contains information on Angel Island and its significance in history as well as an explanation of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Author : Willi Baum
Publisher : Random House Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780394837567
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Golden Mountain written by Willi Baum and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1978 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack and Pete sell their small farm and head west in search of adventure and gold.
Author : Carolyn Garcia
Publisher : Ed Rosenthal
ISBN 13 : 9780932551276
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Primo Plant written by Carolyn Garcia and published by Ed Rosenthal. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simplifying gardening outdoors through natural and organic techniques - Mountain Girl's reliable methods ensure a continuous supply without high-tech equipment or a botany degree.
Author : Ling Zhang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848875951
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain Blues written by Ling Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Family. Five generations. An epic story of love and loss. China, 1879 With the Opium wars at their height, Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada, determined to make a life for himself and support his family back home. He will endure great hardship as he works to build the Pacific Railway and save every penny he makes to reunite his family. Canada, 2004 Amy Smith knows nothing of her family history, a secret her mother will not share, until she is summoned to her ancestral home in China to collect the forgotten belongings of family members whom she has never met. Can Amy finally unlock the door to her past? Telling the story of one family's journey through five generations and across the seas, Gold Mountain Blues is a heartrending tale of sacrifice, endurance, hope and survival.
Author : Vicki Delany
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459701895
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain written by Vicki Delany and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-04-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon learning the location of the fabled Gold Mountain from a dying man, henchman Paul Sheridan schemes to get rich and make Fiona MacGillivray his wife--plans in which Fiona wants no part.
Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679723285
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book China Men written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-04-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150116631X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority, the Akha, whose world will soon change. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock, rather than stand by tradition, she wraps her daughter in a blanket, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling, and abandons her in the nearest city. After mother and daughter have gone their separate ways, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. A powerful story about a family, separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters.
Author : Lee Payne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781468041897
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Mountain of Gold written by Lee Payne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel of gold rush San Francisco, a place and time so far out of the ordinary that, even in its day, it could scarcely be believed by those who weren't there. Banker and future Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman said he would sooner throw candy among school children and expect its return than he would lend money to San Franciscans. Supported by the city's lawyers and escaped Australian convicts, he would have directed cannon fire into the Vigilante headquarters at the corner of California and Sacramento Streets except that Admiral Farragut would not lend him his sloop-of-war. Lillie Coit began her career as a fire-obsessed eight-year-old who ran with the volunteer firemen, translated Civil War dispatches for Emperor Louis Napoleon and finally donated $100,000 for Coit Tower that stands above the city today. Be advised, this is not the gold rush of your school texts. This is a city with a thousand men for every woman, the kind of unbalanced society only unsupervised men can create. This tour goes from Belle Ryan's, the finest brothel on the Pacific Slope to the mean cribs and slave auction in Chinatown. And your tour guide? The first of 6,000 teenage Chinese sex slaves imported into the city between 1852 and 1873. A further warning--you will encounter a number of politicians. Like ours, they were famous in their day and are now blessedly forgotten, though some deserve revisiting. William Gwin was a Congressman from Mississippi who joined the gold rush specifically to protect slavery by being sent to the U.S. Senate from what he suspected would become a new state. He achieved his goal in seven months! Opposing him was David Broderick, a former New York City fireman and anti-slavery Democrat. A third politician was Edward Baker, Lincoln's former law partner, the finest orator on the Pacific Coast and Oregon's first Republican Senator. It was a combination that lead to gunfire and death. Finally, what's a gold rush without the gold? Travel to Nevada where, a quarter mile beneath Virginia City, our heroine faces the biggest chunk of it ever, the 50-story tall Big Bonanza. She meets the four Irishmen who own it and is seduced by Slippery Jim Fair, the richest man ever to die unloved in San Francisco. The lines that Uncle Jimmy Fair used to get the numerous ladies into his bed have not been recorded. I had to make them up. But we do have General Sherman's letters, Lillie Coit's diaries and all the lurid details from dozens of San Francisco newspapers. What they report is a tale made even more unbelievable for being pretty much exactly true. Invest $25.95 to take the R-rated tour--maybe NC-17--it is a love story but there are several hangings.
