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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family describes 100 years of author Lisa See's family history, providing a complex portrait of her family’s hard work, suffering, failures and successes as they moved from China to the United States. Speaking of the Chinese side of her family, See has said: "Things were so ...
Lisa See (born 18 February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to ...
Shanghai Girls is divided into three parts: Fate, Fortune, and Destiny. Here See treats Chinese immigration from a personal view through Pearl's narration. In On Gold Mountain she objectively placed 100 years of her Chinese family history in the context of the daunting challenges Chinese immigrants faced in coming to America in search of Gold Mountain.
L.A. author Lisa See explains how her historical novel about a doctor, ... 1995’s “On Gold Mountain,” represented her attempt to understand her Chinese family’s history.
Little did the prolific, 68-year-old author realize that would lead directly to one of her most meticulously researched, fascinating and ultimately enjoyable works, “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.”
The Island of Sea Women is a 2019 historical novel written by American author Lisa See. [1] [2] Set on the Korean island of Jeju, the novel tells the story of a friendship between Mi-ja, the daughter of a Japanese collaborator, and Young-Sook, the heir apparent in a family of haenyeo. Throughout the decades from Japanese rule to the modern era ...
Later in the evening, for her explosive performance, Lisa changed into a cherry red leather look composed of a fringe bustier top and a cutout miniskirt with black lace-up details at the sides.
Novels by Lisa See (1 C, 8 P) ... On Gold Mountain This page was last edited on 24 October 2020, at 01:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...