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On Gold Mountain : the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family
- Title
- On Gold Mountain : the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family / Lisa See.
- Author
- See, Lisa.
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 402 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 21 cm
- 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 1800s.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- "With a new epilogue by the author"--P. 4 of cover.
- Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press,1995 and Vintage Books, 1996.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-402).
- 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.
- Call Number
- APV (Seay) 12-4175
- ISBN
- 9780307950390
- 0307950395
- LCCN
- 2012371549
- OCLC
- 758388848
- Author
- See, Lisa.
- Title
- On Gold Mountain : the one-hundred-year odyssey of my Chinese-American family / Lisa See.
- Imprint
- New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-402).
- Research Call Number
- APV (Seay) 12-4175