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Gold Mountain

Author : Betty G. Yee

Publisher : Lerner + ORM

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 22,8 MB

Release : 2022-04-05

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1728451019

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Working on the Transcontinental Railroad promises a fortune—for those who survive. Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare Ling Fan from the debilitating foot-binding required of most well-off girls. But Ling Fan’s life is upended when her brother dies of influenza and their father is imprisoned under false accusations. Hoping to earn the money that will secure her father’s release, Ling Fan disguises herself as a boy and takes her brother’s contract to work for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in America. Life on “the Gold Mountain” is grueling and dangerous. To build the railroad that will connect the west coast to the east, Ling Fan and other Chinese laborers lay track and blast tunnels through the treacherous peaks of the Sierra Nevada, facing cave-ins, avalanches, and blizzards—along with hostility from white Americans. When someone threatens to expose Ling Fan’s secret, she must take an even greater risk to save what’s left of her family . . . and to escape the Gold Mountain alive.



Gold Mountain, Big City

Author : Jim Schein

Publisher : Cameron Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 14,1 MB

Release : 2020

Category : History

ISBN : 9781944903893

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The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and playful time capsule of San Francisco's Chinatown shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and 1955. Each quadrant of the map, supplemented by never-before-seen black-and-white photographs and meticulous research, drops the reader into a world of curious characters that reveals a glimpse of the immigration story so universal to America in both its celebratory aspects and its darkness.



Gold Mountain: Part 1

Author : Sam Zabu

Publisher : Amar Medic

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 46,26 MB

Release : 2022-10-17

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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It’s just a normal Saturday morning for Lee Wang, a 27-year-old engineer and Reddit moderator living in his mother’s basement in London, when something unexpected happens. He and his best friends, Sam and Jay, are conscripted into the British Army. They do not know why, but they have been handpicked to carry out a top-secret mission of vital importance to military command. Their mission; they have to find Gold Mountain, a legendary mountain filled with gold located somewhere in Eastern Europe. From that moment on, Lee, Sam and Jay’s lives change forever. They are no longer civilians, but secret agents. They must go on a dangerous adventure to find a legendary treasure, navigate hostile environments, face their deepest fears, fight monsters, and use their wits to survive.



Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Author : Gordon H. Chang

Publisher : Mariner Books

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 24,88 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1328618579

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Guangdong -- Gold Mountain -- Central Pacific -- Foothills -- The High Sierra -- The Summit -- The Strike -- Truckee -- The Golden Spike -- Beyond Promontory.



Escape to Gold Mountain

Author : David H. T. Wong

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,8 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 9781551524764

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Book Description

An epic graphic novel about the experience of Chinese immigrants in North America over the past 150 years.



Surviving on the Gold Mountain

Author : Huping Ling

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 26,35 MB

Release : 1998-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780791438633

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The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.



On Gold Mountain

Author : Lisa See

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 29,84 MB

Release : 2012-02-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0307950395

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In 1867, Lisa See's 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 family's antiques store in Los Angeles's 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.



On Gold Mountain

Author : Lisa See

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 394 pages

File Size : 50,43 MB

Release : 1999

Category : California

ISBN : 9780099409823

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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.



Tales from Gold Mountain

Author : Paul Yee

Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd

Page : 73 pages

File Size : 48,7 MB

Release : 2014-01-09

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 155498243X

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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.



Gold Mountain Turned to Dust

Author : John R. Wunder

Publisher : University of New Mexico Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 22,14 MB

Release : 2018-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0826359396

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Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West. The first two essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American West.