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| #94021 in Books | Vintage Books | 2012-02-07 | 2012-02-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.90 x5.20l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 402 pages | Vintage Books||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| For generations of Chinese, "Shangri La" was a place they called Gold Mountain|By Old China Books|Superior tale of Chinese and Chinese-Americans in California from late 1800s railroad-building through four generations of struggle to the present day - an engaging historical account rendered delightfully personal through the stories Lisa tells in On Gold Mountain of her family hi|.com |Lisa See, daughter of novelist Carolyn See, brings a novelist's skill to this sprawling ancestral history. Books tracing the roots of overseas Chinese writers are not uncommon these days, but See uncovered in her family tree a capsule history of the Sino-
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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.On Gold Mountain | Lisa See. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
