On Gold Mountain

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1999
Edition: Reprint

Description: 416 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1867, Lisa Sees great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her familys antiques store in Los Angeless Chinatown, listening to stories of missionaries and prostitutes, movie stars and Chinese baseball teams. With these stories and her own years of research, Lisa See chronicles the one-hundred-year-odyssey of her Chinese-American family, a history that encompasses racism, romance, secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world.

ISBN: 9780099409823