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Gold Mountain

Author : Betty G. Yee

Publisher : Lerner + ORM

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 14,83 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 : 44,12 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.



Ghosts of Gold Mountain

Author : Gordon H. Chang

Publisher : Mariner Books

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 47,74 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.



Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain

Author : Katrina Saltonstall Currier

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 35,75 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Angel Island (Calif.)

ISBN : 9780966735277

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On his 12th birthday, Kai learns that he must leave his home in China and journey alone to Gold MountainAmericato live with his father. The year is 1934, and the U.S. does not welcome Chinese immigrants. When Kai arrives he is detained on Angel Island in a crowded barracks, with harsh interrogations and the threat of being returned to China. Will Kai ever be free to join his father?



On Gold Mountain

Author : Lisa See

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 47,71 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.



Surviving on the Gold Mountain

Author : Huping Ling

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 15,63 MB

Release : 1998-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780791438633

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Book Description

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



Stone Sky Gold Mountain

Author : Mirandi Riwoe

Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 38,82 MB

Release : 2020-03-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0702263907

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Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue gets a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.



On Gold Mountain

Author : Lisa See

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 394 pages

File Size : 36,90 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.



Escape to Gold Mountain

Author : David H. T. Wong

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,5 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.



Good Fortune

Author : Li Keng Wong

Publisher : Holiday House

Page : 152 pages

File Size : 16,76 MB

Release : 2016-03-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1561458740

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In this dramatic memoir of early-twentieth century immigration, author Li Keng Wong shares her family's difficult journey from rural China to a new life in California. In 1933, seven-year-old Li Keng's life changed forever when her father decided to bring his family from a small village in southern China to California. Getting to America was not easy, as their family faced America's strict anti-Chinese immigration laws that meant any misstep could mean deportation and disgrace. Life in America during the Great Depression brought many exciting surprises as well as many challenges. Hunger, poverty, police raids, frequent moves, and the occasional sting of racism were a part of everyday life, but slowly Li Keng and her family found stability and a true home in "Gold Mountain." An author's note contains photos and an update on Li Keng Wong's family. This evocative memoir presents the joys and sorrows of pursuing the American Dream during a time of racism and great poverty, but also immense opportunity. The book also contains information on Angel Island and its significance in history as well as an explanation of the Chinese Exclusion Act.