Bibliograph

On Gold Mountain, the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family, Lisa See

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On Gold Mountain, the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family, Lisa See

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-402)

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collective biography

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On Gold Mountain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

758388848

Responsibility statement

Lisa See

Sub title

the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family

Summary

Chronicles the experiences of a Chinese-American family in California, beginning with the immigration of the author's great-great-grandfather in the late 1800sIn 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. Sees family history encompasses secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, romance, racism, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world

Table Of Contents

The wonder time, 1866-71 -- Exclusion, 1872-93 -- Love, 1894-97 -- Lo sang, 1897-1902 -- Immigration, 1902-13 -- Family days, 1914-18 -- The home village, 1919-20 -- Playboys, 1920-24 -- The kidnapping, 1925-28 -- Depression, 1929-34 -- Memories: Tyrus tells his story -- Dragon's Den, 1934-35 -- Snapshots, 1936-38 -- Anna May speaks (from the grave) -- Second chances, 1939-41 -- The mission family gets a daughter-in-law, 1942-45 -- Hollow Bamboo, 1946-47 -- Fire, 1947-50 -- Another marriage, 1951-57 -- Family means everything, 1957-95 -- The home village II, Spring 1991

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