Southern fried rice : life in a Chinese laundry in the Deep South /
"This memoir conveys the experiences of our family, the only Chinese in Macon, Georgia from 1928 to 1956. It describes our isolation running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice, explains why we moved to San Francisco's Chinese community, and how we adjusted to new ch...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[California?] :
Yin & Yang Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | "This memoir conveys the experiences of our family, the only Chinese in Macon, Georgia from 1928 to 1956. It describes our isolation running a laundry, enduring loneliness as well as racial prejudice, explains why we moved to San Francisco's Chinese community, and how we adjusted to new challenges and opportunities. This edition adds an afterword describing the book's impact on readers and audiences at book talks and how it led to my writing four more books on Chinese American history"--Publisher marketing. |
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| Item Description: | "Author afterword now included"--Cover. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781466218925 1466218924 |