On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
448 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1995
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ISBN: 9780679768524
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: 27 August 1996
Description
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.
