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Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown (Cloth) (English and Cantonese Edition)
Songs of Gold Mountain Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown - Cloth - English and Cantonese Edition Author:Marlon K. Hom Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans. Hom has arr... more »anged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature.« less