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Quiet odyssey : a pioneer Korean woman in America /

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Mary Paik Lee, born Paik Kuang Sun in 1900, left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea at the close of the Russo-Japanese War. Her father labored in the sugar plantations of Hawaii for a year and a half before taking his...

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Main Author: Lee, Mary Paik, 1900-1995 (Author)
Other Authors: Chan, Sucheng (Editor), Yoo, David (witer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
Series:Classics of Asian American literature.
Subjects:
Lee, Mary Paik, > 1900-1995.
Korean Americans > Biography.
Korean American women > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Korea > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.

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