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| List Price: www.amazon.com's Price: $10.85 You Save: $5.1 (32%) Condition: New Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Release Date: 1996-08-27 Lowest New Price: $7.80 Lowest Used Price: $4.26 | Product DescriptionOut of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.Amazon.com ReviewLisa 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 Publishers Weekly 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.Read more... Similar Products:Dreams of Joy: A NovelPeony in Love: A Novel Shanghai Girls: A Novel Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery (Red Princess Mysteries) The Interior: A Red Princess Mystery (Red Princess Mysteries) | |