Thousand Pieces of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thousand Pieces of Gold write by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. This book was released on 2015-07-21. Thousand Pieces of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary biographical novel about a Chinese-American woman who fought for independence and dignity in the American West—“an important contribution to the history of pioneer women” (Ms. Magazine) Lalu Nathoy’s father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold”—yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. With over a quarter of a million copies sold, Thousand Pieces of Gold is a classic of biographical historical fiction that stars an unforgettable Chinese-American heroine whose struggles put a human face on the anti-immigration policies of the past and present.
The Moon Pearl
The Moon Pearl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moon Pearl write by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. This book was released on 2001-09-22. The Moon Pearl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options open to them at this time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. Though ostracized by their families, attacked, and barely able to find sustenance and shelter, these sze saw, or self-combers as they will come to be called, manage to create lives that they alone control. An amazing true-life story, The Moon Pearl offers an empowering vision of womanhood in China.
Pieces of Gold
Pieces of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pieces of Gold write by Nancy Young Mosny. This book was released on 1999. Pieces of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Funny, yet heartbreaking, but rich in the idiosyncrasies of belonging to an immigrant family, this is a poignant novel about the patchwork of growing old and growing up as a Chinese-American woman.
Daughter of a Thousand Pieces of Gold
Daughter of a Thousand Pieces of Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daughter of a Thousand Pieces of Gold write by Peg Helminski. This book was released on 2012-10-16. Daughter of a Thousand Pieces of Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a hiding place behind the courtyard moon gate, eleven-year-old Zhong Mei Lin hears her father defend her as "a daughter of a thousand pieces of gold" to corrupt village leader, Liu Long Tang. This expression, highest praise for a Chinese daughter, means she is a valuable as a son. Little do any of them realize that she will soon prove this worth not only to her parents and Liu Long Tang, but to provincial government authorities and to a whole new world she hasn't even dreamed of yet! Set against the rapidly changing social landscape brought on by the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping and China's one-child family planning policy, Mei Lin's journey is one the reader will not soon forget. Rich in details of Chinese culture and tradition, this is a story about standing up for oneself, and about holding on to the good in the past while also making room for the future. Written for a young teen audience, the book is also enjoying growing adult interest --especially among China adoptive parents, family members and friends as well as with others interested in learning more about China in an entertaining format.
Empire in Black and Gold
Empire in Black and Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire in Black and Gold write by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Empire in Black and Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbors. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, it killing Art . . . And now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the aging Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people, before a black-and-gold tide sweeps down over the Lowlands and burns away everything in its path. But first he must stop himself from becoming the Empire's latest victim.
