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Author : Henry Townsend Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain guests written by Henry Townsend Walker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328618579
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of Gold Mountain written by Gordon H. Chang and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Simon Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain Guest written by Simon Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Schein
Publisher : Cameron Books
ISBN 13 : 9781944903893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain, Big City written by Jim Schein and published by Cameron Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and playful time capsule of San Francisco's Chinatown shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and 1955. Each quadrant of the map, supplemented by never-before-seen black-and-white photographs and meticulous research, drops the reader into a world of curious characters that reveals a glimpse of the immigration story so universal to America in both its celebratory aspects and its darkness.
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 : Danielle D. Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Guests of the Gold Mountain written by Danielle D. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : Lisa See
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408811782
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book On Gold Mountain written by Lisa See and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the 'Gold Mountain', the Chinese name for the promised land of America. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws that prohibited unions between the races. Through sheer endeavour and entrepreneurial genius he became one of the most successful Chinese men in the country. Over the decades, each generation of the See family strived to grasp their dreams, realise their ambitions and overcome their disappointments and sorrows. This sweeping chronicle of five generations of a Chinese-American family encompasses stories of adventure and heartache, racism and romance, secret marriages and sibling rivalries. On Gold Mountain is a powerful social history of two cultures meeting in a new world.
Author : Townsend Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Gold Mountain Guests written by Townsend Walker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780544810891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Angel Island written by Russell Freedman and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the port of entry off the coast of California that was "the other Ellis Island" for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307950395
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book On Gold Mountain written by Lisa See and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown, listening to stories of missionaries and prostitutes, movie stars and Chinese baseball teams. With these stories and her own years of research, Lisa See chronicles the one-hundred-year-odyssey of her Chinese-American family, a history that encompasses racism, romance, secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world.
Author : Vivienne Poy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773541497
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Passage to Promise Land written by Vivienne Poy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.
Author : J L Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387345206
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Dwarfs of Gold Mountain written by J L Arnold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golden Mountain is a series of locations that fit together to allow you to make the lost mines the goal or easily create additional plots or missions for players utilizing one or all five locations. A dwarf trading town, a fay forest, a hobgoblin realm, a dragon's lair, and dwarf mines, each location is fully developed with NPC's, player resources, hazards and rewards, as standalone locations or an integrated realm.
Author : Yuen-fong Woon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773520158
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Excluded Wife written by Yuen-fong Woon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act, passed by the Canadian government in 1923, stopped the families of Chinese labourers working in Canada from entering the country. Based on extensive interviews with Chinese women affected by the Exclusion Act, Yuen-fong Woon has written a riveting novel of their experiences told through the character of Sau-Ping. A village woman from South China, Sau-Ping marries an overseas Chinese from Canada in the late 1920s but the Exclusion Act prohibits her from joining him in Canada. For more than twenty years she remains in China, separated from her husband, taking care of his family members and struggling to survive during a turbulent period of Chinese history. To escape political persecution Sau-Ping flees to Hong Kong and spends three years enduring the appalling conditions of a refugee. With the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act she is finally reunited with her husband in Canada, but her struggle continues as she tries to rebuild her life with a husband she barely knows in an alien culture she does not understand. The Excluded Wife gives voice to the first generation of post-war Chinese immigrant women, capturing the tragedy, courage, and triumph of those women who made the epic journey from China to Canada. Yuen-fong Woon is professor of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria.
