Sweet bamboo : a memoir of a Chinese American family / Louise Leung Larson, with a foreword by Shirley Hune and a postscript by Jane Leung Larson.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, c1989Description: xviii, 235 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520230787 [newsprint]Subject(s): Chinese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Stack | 979.494004951 L32 1989 (Browse shelf) | Available |
This book is a wonderful source for people who are interested in Chinese American history, Los Angeles Chinatown, women rising up through the ranks of a newspaper organization during an era when few women worked in journalism, and family memoirs in general. -LISA SEE, author of "On Gold Mountain"
Includes glossary.
Contents: China beginnings -- Goodbye to sweet bamboo -- Growing up -- "1619" -- Chinese Americans -- Personalities -- Hard times -- Generations.
General Education General Education : Sociology
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