Songs of gold mountain - Cantonese rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hom, Marlon K, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1992

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans. Hom has arranged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Translator's Note

The Songs of Gold Mountain

An Introduction to Cantonese Vernacular Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown

ONE Immigration Blues

TWO Lamentations of Stranded Sojourners

THREE Lamentations of Estranged Wives

FOUR Nostalgic Blues

FIVE Rhapsodies on Gold

SIX Songs of Western Influence and the American-borns

SEVEN Nuptial Rhapsodies

EIGHT Ballads of the Libertines

NINE Songs of the Young at Heart

TEN Songs of Prodigals and Addicts

ELEVEN Songs of the Hundred Men's Wife

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-520-91336-1

0-585-27569-6

OCLC:

1162390574