Samantha's review of Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903
Dragonwings: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903 (Golden Mountain Chronicles) by Laurence Yep
Samantha's review
rating:
bookshelves:
young-adult
recommended for:
7th grade and up
status:
Read in April, 2007
Laurence Yep is a Chinese-American whose writing often focuses on cultural alienation and racial conflict. Yep’s father was born in China and moved to the United States when he was ten, living with an Irish friend in a white neighborhood. He later opened a grocery store in an African American community after the Depression. Yep grew up in San Francisco feeling alienated as his neighborhood’s “all-purpose Asian” but at his parochial bilingual school he was teased for only knowing English. “Dragonwings” was written after six years of research and was inspired by an anecdotally brief article about a man named Fung Joe Guey, who flew a self-made biplane over the hills of Oakland on September 22, 1909.
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