| On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of a Chinese-American Family |  | Author: Lisa See
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 205716
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 394
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0312119976
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.2089951073
EAN: 9780312119973
ASIN: 0312119976
Publication Date: August 1995
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Amazon.com Review
Lisa See, daughter of novelist Carolyn See, brings a novelist's skill to this sprawling ancestral history. Books tracing the roots of overseas Chinese writers are not uncommon these days, but See uncovered in her family tree a capsule history of the Sino-American diaspora: her great-grandfather, Fong See, founded a California business, married a Caucasian woman and fathered many offspring, and returned periodically to China to redistribute some of his wealth and launch another family. See, a IPublishers Weekly/I writer, has conducted extensive interviews and drawn on family lore for an enthralling saga of ambition, prejudice, love, loyalty, and sorrow--social history at its best.
Product Description
Documenting the history of her own Chinese-American family, a journalist shares the results of five years of research, including interviews with nearly one hundred Chinese and Caucasian relatives, in a story of acceptance and discrimination. 85,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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A new family April 19, 1998
Dan Clarke(dcclarke@ix.netcom.com) (USA(San Jose, CA))
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I wish I had read this book first. I read Lisa's Flower Net and enjoyed it so much that I looked to see what else she had written. Finding On Gold Mountain (thanks, Amazon) I became immersed in the life of the author and her family. I have read so many stories of Chinese families in Mainland China and Taiwan, but this is the first I have read of the Chinese American experience. It is doubly interesting because of the marriages between Chinese and Caucasians, and how they resolved their cultural differences during a time when China itself was undergoing so many cultural changes. I highly recomend the book for its content and for its excellent narrative style.
An odyssey of a read July 29, 1997
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Lisa See, in describing the journey of her family over one hundred years, also takes the reader on a literary journey. I have read many auto-biographical and semi-auto-biographical accounts of the Chinese diaspora and Lisa's book is amongst the best. We can read her book as an adventure and also as a history. A history about which she must be proud. This book has inspired me to write about my own family, who made a similar journey, over a hundred years ago, but in Australia
The author carries you along on her odyssey! August 2, 1996
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lisa See's path to discover where and how she fits in in this gifted, and far from ordinary immigrant American family is as much your story as it is hers. Her writing is fresh and alive enough to hold your interest and make you want to hear more from and about this author. Her mother is Carolyn See, who has written a little about Lisa's history in her own book, Dreaming: Good Luck and Hard Times in America. Look over both books and be prepared to hunker down for a while.
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