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The concubine's children: the story of a family living on two sides of the globe

By Chan , Denise , Sam;Chong

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Canada
Year
2014
ISBN
9780143192091, 9780143193302, 0143192094
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1900984 bytes)
Series
Modern classics (Toronto Ont.)
Pages
xviii, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Canadiens d'origine chinoise--Colombie-BritanniqueSam -- Famille;ChanSam -- Family;ChanSam;Families -- China -- 20th century;Chinese -- B

Description

The Concubine's Children is the story of a family cleaved in two for the sake of a father's dream. There's Chan Sam, who left an "at home" wife in China to earn a living in "Gold Mountain"—North America. There's May-ying, the willful, seventeen-year-old concubine he bought, sight unseen, who labored in tea houses of west coast Chinatowns to support the family he would have in Canada, and the one he had in China. It was the concubine's third daughter, the author's mother, who unlocked the past for her daughter, whose curiosity about some old photographs ultimately reunited a family divided for most of the last century.

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