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Genealogy of the Rich Family
Author : John Rich
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2017-12-31
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ISBN : 9780692990155
Genealogy of the Rich Family
Author : Kevin Kwan
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385679068
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should--and should not--marry. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.
Author : Edwin Wilson
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2020-12-31
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ISBN : 9780949557285
Author : Julia Rich Hogan
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 1968
Category : England
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Author : Julia Rich Hogan
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 1969
Category : England
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Author : Julia Rich Hogan
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 1969
Category : England
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Author : Kevin Kwan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385542240
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the international sensation Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, here is the trilogy’s uproarious conclusion. • “A memorable, laugh-out-loud Asian glitz fest that’s a pure pleasure to read.” —USA Today When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch’s massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park—a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore—Nicholas’s childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by her ex-husband—a man hell bent on destroying Astrid’s reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to China’s second richest man, billionaire Jack Bing, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing. A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.
Author : Everett Eri Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 1963
Category : British Americans
ISBN :
"Joseph Rich, [an English immigrant and] the first known American ancestor of our line, appears in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he married Elizabeth Beeson (widow of Edward) in the year 1714/15." His descendant, Eri Rich, son of Joseph and Miriam Newby Rich, was born in 1840. He married Elizabeth Ann Davidson, daughter of Joseph and Cyrena White Davidson in 1861 in Grant County, Indiana. They had twelve children, 1862-1883. He died in 1915 at Fairmount, Indiana. Descendants lived in Indiana and elsewhere
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1970
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Typewritten and handwritten personal histories, correspondence and genealogy charts of the Rich family.
Author : François Weil
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674076370
The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage. Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world.