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On Gold Mountain
| Author | : Lisa See |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : California |
| ISBN | : 9780099409823 |
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.
Gold Mountain
| Author | : Betty G. Yee |
| Publisher | : Carolrhoda Lab ® |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2022-04-05 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1728451019 |
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.
Mountain Light
| Author | : Laurence Yep |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1997-02-14 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0064406679 |
Their families fought one another for generations, maintaining an age-old blood feud. But that changed when they found themselves on the same side of a new struggle against the tyrannical Manchu dynasty. By devoting himself fully to the revolution, Squeaky Lau wins Cassia's trust -- and her heart. But winning Cassia's love is not enough. Now Squeaky must prove his worth as a man -- to Cassia, to his villa village, and most importantly, to himself. And the only way he can do that is by giving up everything he has worked for and traveling to the Land of the Golden Mountain, the place foreign demons call America.
Ghosts of Gold Mountain
| Author | : Gordon H. Chang |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : 1328618579 |
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.
Dragon's Gate
| Author | : Laurence Yep |
| Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780785761549 |
Sailing to California in 1865, 14-year-old Otter leaves China to meet his father and legendary uncle on the transcontinental railroad, an adventure that challenges his survival on the mountains of the Sierras. Newbery Honor Book
Oranges on Golden Mountain
| Author | : Elizabeth Partridge |
| Publisher | : Puffin |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : 9780142500330 |
When hard times fall on his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.
The Golden Mountain
| Author | : Easurk Emsen Charr |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780252065132 |
Charr tells eloquently of his difficulties in becoming a naturalized citizen, even after serving in the army, of his sergeant's encouragement of his quest for citizenship, his return to San Francisco and a job in a cousin's barbershop during the Depression, and of the American Legion's help when his Korean-born wife was threatened with deportation proceedings after her student visa expired. After becoming a naturalized citizen, Charr took the civil service examination and, for the remainder of his working life, was employed by the U.S. government, first in Nevada and then in Portland, Oregon. The introduction and annotations by Wayne Patterson provide a broader perspective on both Charr and the Korean immigrant experience.
Gold Mountain Blues
| Author | : Ling Zhang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2017-05 |
| Genre | : Canada |
| ISBN | : 9781848875951 |
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.
Gift of the Golden Mountain
| Author | : Shirley Streshinsky |
| Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2013-08-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1620455161 |
California in the 1960s and 70s forms the background to a saga of one family’s passions, past and present, played out against the explosive era of the Vietnam War. It follows the young part-Chinese heiress, May Reade, as she searches through her illustrious heritage for the roots of her own identity and her struggle to reconcile her Asian self with the American. Her journey of self-discovery takes her from the anti-war barricades of Berkeley to a remote village in China where she at last meets the mother who had deserted her at birth. There, in the country of her ancestors, she will not only begin to understand her confusion, but will find her future happiness and, in the final, savage climax of the fall of Saigon, decide her own destiny. Gift of the Golden Mountain continues the story of the pioneering Reade family, first encountered in the author’s earlier novel Hers the Kingdom. Seen through the eyes of faith, lifelong family friends and archivist, it describes with telling effect the pain one generation inflicts on the next, and the healing power of love and compassion, forgiveness and commitment.
