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9780520081048

Songs of Gold Mountain Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown

Songs of Gold Mountain Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
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  • ISBN-13: 9780520081048
  • ISBN: 0520081048
  • Publication Date: 1992
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr on Demand

AUTHOR

Hom, Marlon K.

SUMMARY

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.Hom, Marlon K. is the author of 'Songs of Gold Mountain Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown', published 1992 under ISBN 9780520081048 and ISBN 0520081048.

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