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.
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Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Family.
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Chinese Americans -- California -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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California -- Biography.
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Asian -- Biography.
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China.
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ISBN |
0679723285 |
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9780679723288 |
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