Books : On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.2089951073
EAN: 9780312119973
ISBN: 0312119976
Label: St Martins Pr
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 394
Publication Date: 1995-08
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Sales Rank: 442047
Studio: St Martins Pr
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Documenting the history of her own Chinese-American family, a journalist shares the results of five years of research, including interviews with nearly one hundred Chinese and Caucasian relatives, in a story of acceptance and discrimination. 85,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Amazon.com Review:
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-American diaspora: her great-grandfather, Fong See, founded a California business, married a Caucasian woman and fathered many offspring, and returned periodically to China to redistribute some of his wealth and launch another family. See, a Publishers Weekly writer, has conducted extensive interviews and drawn on family lore for an enthralling saga of ambition, prejudice, love, loyalty, and sorrow--social history at its best.
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I wish I had read this book first. I read Lisa's Flower Net and enjoyed it so much that I looked to see what else she had written. Finding On Gold Mountain (thanks, Amazon) I became immersed in the life of the author and her family. I have read so many stories of Chinese families in Mainland China and Taiwan, but this is the first I have read of the Chinese American experience. It is doubly interesting because of the marriages between Chinese and Caucasians, and how they resolved their cultural differences during a time when China itself was undergoing so many cultural changes. I highly recomend the book for its content and for its excellent narrative style.
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Lisa See, in describing the journey of her family over one hundred years, also takes the reader on a literary journey.
I have read many auto-biographical and semi-auto-biographical accounts of the Chinese diaspora and Lisa's book is amongst the best. We can read her book as an adventure and also as a history. A history about which she must be proud. This book has inspired me to write about my own family, who made a similar journey, over a hundred years ago, but in Australia
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Lisa See's path to discover where and how she fits in in
this gifted, and far from ordinary immigrant American family is
as much your story as it is hers. Her writing is fresh and
alive enough to hold your interest and make you want to
hear more from and about this author. Her mother is Carolyn
See, who has written a little about Lisa's history in her own
book, Dreaming: Good Luck and Hard Times in America. Look
over both books and be prepared to hunker down for a while.
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