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Songs Of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes From San Francisco Chinatown (cloth) (english And Cantonese Edition) by [selected and translated by] Marlon K. Hom is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Songs Of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes From San Francisco Chinatown (cloth) (english And Cantonese Edition) about?

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.

Author

[selected and translated by] Marlon K. Hom

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520056077

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-25