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Author Kingston, Maxine Hong.

Title China men / Maxine Hong Kingston.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 1989.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.04951 KINGSTON    Check Shelf
Edition 1st Vintage international ed.
Description 308 pages ; 21 cm
Contents On discovery -- On fathers -- The father from China -- The ghostmate -- The Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains -- On mortality -- On mortality again -- The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains -- The laws -- Alaska China men -- The making of more Americans -- The wild man of the Green Swamp -- The adventures of Lo Bun Sun -- The American father -- The Li Sao: an elegy -- The brother in Vietnam -- The hundred-year-old man -- On listening.
Summary The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Awards National Book Award, General Nonfiction (hardcover), 1981
Subject Chinese Americans -- History.
Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Family.
Chinese Americans -- California -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
California -- Biography.
Asian -- Biography.
China.
ISBN 0679723285
9780679723288
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