Title Statements
- Full title :China men / Maxine Hong Kingston.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1989, ©1980.
- Edition:1st Vintage international ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1989, ©1980.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1980.
"Woven from memory, myth, and fact--a journey into the hearts and minds of Chinese men in America: the grandfather who slaved in the Sierra Nevadas on the transcontinental railroad ... the father who danced down Fifth Avenue, like Fred Astaire, on days off from the laundry ... and the son who returned to China to find release from his dead mother's angry spirit. Here is an accomplished storyteller's remarkably beautiful tale of what they endured in a strange new land"--Page 4 of cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:308 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0679723285, 9780679723288
- oclc:ocn428007387
- LC Classification:E184.C5
- Dewey Decimal:973/.04951
Table of Contents
On discovery -- On fathers -- The father from China. The ghostmate -- The great grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains. On mortality -- On mortality again -- The grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The laws -- Alaska China men -- The making of more Americans. The wild man of the green swamp -- The adventures of Lo Bun Sun -- The American father. The Li sao : an elegy -- The brother in Vietnam. The hundred-year-old man -- On listening.
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