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Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : China
ISBN : 9781328618573
A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.
Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554982431
Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the IODE National Chapter Award Drawing on the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the railway and the settling of the west coast in the nineteenth century, noted historian and children’s author Paul Yee has created eight original stories that combine the rough-and-tumble adventure of frontier life with the rich folk traditions that these immigrants brought from China. These tales are funny, sad, romantic and earthy, but ultimately, as a collection, they reflect the gritty optimism of the Chinese who overcame prejudice and adversity to build a unique place for themselves in North America.
Author : Ling Zhang
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185840
A sweeping, tragic novel spanning five generations and two continents Gold Mountain Blues is a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guangdong Province, which are transformed by the promise of a better life in Gold Mountain, the Chinese name for Canada’s majestic West Coast. In 1879, 16-year-old Fong Tak-Fat boards a ship to Canada determined to make a life for himself and to support his family back home. He will blast rocks for the Pacific Railway, launder linens for his countrymen, and save every penny he makes to reunite his family because his heart remains in China. From the 1860s to the present day, Gold Mountain Blues relates the struggles and sacrifices of the labourers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway and who laid the groundwork for the evolution of the modern Chinese-Canadian identity. A novel about family, hope, and sacrifice, Gold Mountain Blues is a marvellous saga from a remarkable new Canadian voice.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101910085
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.
Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679723288
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.
Author : David H. T. Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1551524767
An epic graphic novel about the experience of Chinese immigrants in North America over the past 150 years.
Author : Gordon H. Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674426139
Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether it is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in their future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America’s long and varied preoccupation with China.
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : California
ISBN : 0099409828
When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family`s antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colourful stories about their family`s past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa`s great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States, and how his son followed him. As an adult, See spent fives years collecting the details of her family`s remarkable history. She interviewd nearly one hundred relatives and pored over documents at the National Archives, the immigration office, and in countless attics, basements, and closets for the initmate nuances of her ancestors` lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portriat that is att once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America - and of America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles its immigrants like no other culture in the world.
Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773065793
The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board a train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born. Ghostly, magical and yet redeeming, this tale by Paul Yee is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408811795
Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches she finds herself betrothed to a man she does not know, but Peony has dreams of her own. Her father engages a theatrical troupe to perform scenes from The Peony Pavilion, a Chinese epic opera, in their garden amidst the scent of ginger, green tea and jasmine. 'Unmarried girls should not be seen in public,' says Peony's mother, but her father allows the women to watch from behind a screen. Here, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately bewitched. So begins her unforgettable journey of love, desire, sorrow and redemption.
Author : Huping Ling
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791438635
The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.
Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0888995873
Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, e, i, s.
Author : Walter R. Borneman
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316371797
A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In Iron Horses, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country. Borneman brings to life the legendary robber barons behind it all and also captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads -- the laborers who did the back-breaking work, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains. From backroom deals in Washington, DC, to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are made vivid in Iron Horses.
Author : Madeline Y. Hsu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804746877
This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated. The author vividly depicts the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in "Gold Mountain."
Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307759337
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With this book, the acclaimed author created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. “A classic, for a reason” – Celeste Ng via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.