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China men / Maxine Hong Kingston.
LIBRA Special E184.C5 K5 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kingston, Maxine Hong.
- Series:
- Vintage international.
- Vintage international
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kingston, Maxine Hong.
- Chinese Americans--History.
- Chinese Americans.
- History.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong--Family.
- Chinese Americans--California--Biography.
- Families.
- California.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- California--Biography.
- Asian.
- China.
- Medical Subjects:
- Asian.
- China.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered pages, 308 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- [First Vintage international edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1989.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- National Book Award, General Nonfiction (hardcover), 1981
- ISBN:
- 0679723285 :
- 9780679723288
- OCLC:
- 18949290
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- Publisher description
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