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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 »
ISBN-13: 9780520056077
ISBN-10: 0520056078
Publication Date: 7/1/1992
Pages: 322
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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