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  <title><![CDATA[On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family]]></title>
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  <default_description>Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1995</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lisa See]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very entertaining and interesting family story, although I wasn't crazy about the writing style, which occasionally reminded me of The Boxcar Children (which is a fine and dandy writing style when you're writing for elementary school students, but this one was full of whores and opium).  I also ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23753006">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 10 16:18:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book because it made me look at the immigration issue in a new way.  It's amazing to read many of the political speeches given in the early part of the 20th century about the Chinese and then to realize that many are saying the exact same things about some of the immigrants coming over t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4376587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4926476">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A non-fiction family saga about coming to the US from China and the experience of being an immigrant in America. An interesting twist is that the original immigrant marries an American woman;  the Chinese husband, American wife and bi-national children all face different types of discrimination. The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4926476">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68914744">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A revelation. See's great-grandfather (or is it her grandfather?) rises from selling trinkets in Sacramento to the good life selling antiques bought cheaply off desperate countrymen in China during the turbulent years of the twenties and thirties.  But it's the background of the brutal discriminatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68914744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70552973">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 08 20:45:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 19 06:55:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I met the author, Lisa See, at EncycloMedia this week! She is a lovely person, and we had a nice chat. I told her about the underground Chinatown project I did for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices this summer. She's going to take a look at it. She knew of other underground Chinatowns, but not the one in Ok...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70552973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47991768">
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  <date_added>Mon Mar 02 07:51:09 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my all time favorite stories.  Lisa See's family is amazing and I find their true story much more interesting than her actual novels.  The American immigrant experience fascinates me and this tale spanning several generations does not disappoint.  I couldn't put it down.  Lisa See act...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47991768">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62637158">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good Story for Chinese Immigrants<br/><br/>In order to attract more eyeballs, I should have titled the review something like &quot;Every Chinese Immigrants Must Read&quot;, blah, blah ... ... , which is obviously not my thing. So, the current title is what I came up and will stick with, which gene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62637158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33100751">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a while since I've given a good review, but today I've done two. Pretty nice.<br/><br/>This book was so interesting. Lisa See's family is interesting in and of itself with the family living America and in China (with all the wives and concubines), but the history of the Chinese in Americ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33100751">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17539642">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who is facinated by either chinese history/culture OR families in general]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Feb 26 14:20:11 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>  WOW!<br/>    This book was amazing. it also took forever to read. There is SO much information in it that it takes awhile to really digest it all. At 378 pages with VERY small print, its a pretty hefty book.<br/><br/>   This is the story of Lisa See's (The author) family ~ starting back i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17539642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74153472">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my introduction to Lisa See, an affair that is enduring and endearing.  My own Los Angeles roots, if you can call the San Fernando Valley &quot;Los Angeles&quot;, led me on odyssey through familiar places with a whole new perspective.  I read it by accident, it being on my daughter's readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74153472">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[No other book on Chinese-American experience had interested me until now.  While there is no similarity between my family's American integration and the author's, it was fascinating to read about the endurance of the same South Chinese customs and about life from the Chinese immigrant's perspective ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69242263">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ŅElin Melchior: I loved this personal history of a Chinese family in the USA.  I'm very interested in the development of Chinese American culture and felt that I really learned something about the evolution of Chinese American society through the book's mix of facts and personal stories.    ----    ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44805771">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 08:06:34 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very fascinating history of the Chinese-American experience. Lisa See's ancestry includes a Caucasian grandmother who married a Chinese man in the early 1900s shocking her family and society. This is the story of their lives making their way in Los Angeles as owners of a very successful import busin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74719897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61935239">
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    <body><![CDATA[Novelist Lisa See's memoir about her Chinese-American ancestry is a fascinating read for anyone who enjoyed her novels &quot;Snow Flower and the Secret Fan&quot; and &quot;Shanghai Girls.&quot; She provides a detailed account of the intermarriages, business deals, and connection to L.A's Chinatown t...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lisa See's books are very good. This one was especially of interest to me as the setting is early Los Angeles China Town where I visited often as a teen-ager. See's books are very well written and researched. Her gift for sharing her culture is excellent.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It gives an amazing view of the lives on one family through 100 years of life!  I learned so much about the persecution of the Chinese people during the early part of the 20th century, and how this family fought to get through it all.  It was so well-written, I would hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53908418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My family history is so boring compared to this.  This was so fascinating and really gave me a better appreciation for the immigrants coming to this country - especially the Chinese.  I appreciate Chinese restaurants so much more now!  It was what they had to do to survive!  A really great book...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To say that I READ this book would be an overstatement. I checked it out at the library, realised it was not a novel (non-fiction, yikes!) skimmed the first 30 pages and promptly gave it back to the library. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Lisa See's family history so a rare non-fiction book for her.  I like non-fiction and enjoyed this book.  Lisa See is a good author.  The book is very long and takes concentration because of all of the foreign names and words used to relate to customs.  However, it is a good history of the C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59767842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like alot of memoirs, this book got a bit boring and rushed at the end, but the rest was a fascinating story of Asian immigrants in California from the late 1800s to the late 1900s. ]]></body>
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