02771cam a2200349 4500 591271158 TxAuBib 20220525120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780795304965 079530496X B00M60S3II Amazon a595c7d5-7841-4f6f-9b25-3fa03399034f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 976878 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib See, Lisa. On Gold Mountain [Libby]. RosettaBooks, 2009. Journalists. Editors. Publishers. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6227kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>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, colorful stories about their family's past—stories of missionaries, concubines, long 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 to work on the building of the transcontinental railroad as an herbalist; how his son followed him, married a Caucasian woman, and despite great odds, went on to become one of the most prominent Chinese on "Gold Mountain" (the Chinese name for the United States).</p> <p>As an adult, See spent five years collecting the details of her family's remarkable history. She interviewed nearly one hundred relatives—both Chinese and Caucasian, rich and poor—and pored over documents at the National Archives and several historical societies, searching in countless attics, basements, and closets for the intimate nuances of her ancestors' lives. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portrait in the tradition of Alex Haley's <i>Roots</i> that is at once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles immigrants like no other culture in the world.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-24 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/on-gold-mountain-a595c7?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/on-gold-mountain-a595c7?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/on-gold-mountain-a595c7?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)