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Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown

paperback – November 27, 1992
by Hom, Marlon K. K.
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ISBN-13: 9780520081048 ISBN-10: 0520081048
Publisher
University of California Press
Binding
paperback
Published
November 27, 1992
Weight
0.9 lbs
Dimensions
21.30×2.10×14.00 cm

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Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown by Hom, Marlon K. K.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520081048.

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 arranged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature.