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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. For generationsof Chinese, "Shangri La" was a place they called Gold MountainByOld China BooksSuperior tale of Chinese and Chinese-Americans inCalifornia from late 1800s railroad-building through fourgenerations of struggle to the present day - an engaging historicalaccount rendered delightfully personal through the stories Lisatells in On Gold Mountain of her family history and her greatgrandfather Fong See and his journey to the West and sojourn on thegold mountain in Sacramento, San Francisco, and finally LosAngeles, where he founded a successful merchant dynasty and afamily of many generations in and around mysterious Chinatown.Unique as a book written by one of several extraordinary"Caucasian" women who helped build businesses and make homes fortheir Chinese families. Many images of early Los Angeles andHollywood linger after the final page - little Lisa retreating toher grandparents house in Chinatown, Anna Mae Wong holding court inthe See family restaurant, antique furniture rented to the studiosfor films. Now when we watch those old black-and-white movies setin Chinatown from the 30s through the 40s we're on the lookout forsets created from the riches of the See family antique shops. Wegrew up visiting LA's Chinatown often but, after reading Lisa'sbook, it's no longer "just Chinatown, Jake," and is now a whole newmarvelous place peopled with folks we now know much better, atleast in memory.3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Asweeping history lesson!By Linda C. WrightIn 1867 Lisa See's greatgreat grandfather arrived in America from China. As an herbalist,his services were in great demand by immigrant laborers. This iswhere her family history begins.Fong See, her great grandfatherstarted making ladies underwear, married Ticie, a Caucasian womanbefore building a successful antique business. The family's storyinvolves racism, romance, secret marriages and betrayals. Not onlydoes On Gold Mountain tell the story of a family, it documents thehistory of America from the building of the railroads through theGreat Depression into the post war boom of the fifties.That is alot of territory to cover. The story is meticulously researched andMs. See does a good job of keeping the reader's head focused on thefamily tree. There is a lot going on and people and places to keeptrack of. In some areas the story dragged on. I felt some partswere important to document for the family but maybe not sointeresting to the average reader.I love Lisa See's fiction muchmore than this book, but I fully understand her desire to write it.In any event On Gold Mountain is a wide and sweeping history lessonin the people that help to make American the wonderful place it is.And I'm glad I read it. I learned so much.0 of 0 people found thefollowing review helpful. A must read bookBy Camp RunamokI hadnever heard of Lisa See, but just about everyone I've mentionedthis book to seems to have read at least one of her novels. I hadread a NY Times review for Flower Net - one of her more recentworks, but what really intrigued me was the reference to this book,so I put it in my Kindle Q, and I'm so glad I did.Gold Mountain wasthe Chinese nickname for the US back in the 1800's. This book is afamily history covering over hundred years, but done in a way I'venot seen before, as she not only describes the events that definedthe Fong See and Lettice Pruett legacy (her great grandparents),but she also puts herself directly in the mind of all her relativesand ancestors, which at times gives the book the feel of a novel.Lisa See looks like an Irish redhead (there were two redheads inher Chinese/American lineage), but she is 1/4 Chinese, and as ayoung woman, found solace in her extended and welcoming Chinesefamily, as her parents were somewhat dysfunctional while she wasgrowing up. It's one reason I suspect that her novels mix Chineseand American cultural themes and characters.The book actuallystarts with her great-great grandfather, although he returns toChina. However, his son, Fong See, comes and stays (moving from SanFrancisco to Sacramento to Los Angeles), although he travelsextensively for his business. He marries a Caucasian woman, LetticePruett, which leads to many interesting and varied cultural andlegal conflicts, both in the US and in China. While the US wasactively discouraging Asian immigration after the completion of thetranscontinental railroad, many were also fascinated with Asianfurniture, art, and curios, which became the family business (checkout the youtube video for the F. Suie One Company). This is trulyan amazing work, and in the addendum, See describes what a work inprogress a family history can be, trying to separate familymythology from fact. For anyone with Asian ancestors, Chinese inparticular, this feels like a must read book, and for anyone whovalues what immigration has meant for the US, and the challengesimmigrants have faced (and continue to face), this is also a mustread book. Five stars from this reader.

Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles'sChinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweepingchronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes instories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domesticheartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerfulhistory of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.

.com Lisa See, daughter of novelist Carolyn See, brings anovelist's skill to this sprawling ancestral history. Books tracingthe roots of overseas Chinese writers are not uncommon these days,but See uncovered in her family tree a capsule history of theSino-American diaspora: her great-grandfather, Fong See, founded aCalifornia business, married a Caucasian woman and fathered manyoffspring, and returned periodically to China to redistribute someof his wealth and launch another family. See, a Publishers Weeklywriter, has conducted extensive interviews and drawn on family lorefor an enthralling saga of ambition, prejudice, love, loyalty, andsorrow--social history at its best.From Publishers WeeklyThe Seefamily history is becoming public property. First mother Carolynwith Dreaming (Nonfiction Forecasts, Jan. 2) and now daughterLisa?but with something far different in mind. Always aware of herpart-Chinese roots, she set out five years ago to learn about herfar-flung and, as it turns out, famous paternal family. Hergreat-grandfather Fong See was an extraordinary figure. Heestablished a business in Sacramento, Calif., and later in LosAngeles, when it was an unheard-of thing for a Chinese to do;married a Caucasian and fathered a large brood; returned to Chinaon and off, spreading his wealth around in his tiny native villageand creating another extensive family there too. Drawing on familylegends and dredging up intimate history through countlessinterviews with uncles, aunts and cousins both in California and inChina, See, PW's West Coast correspondent, has created a matchlessportrait not only of a remarkable family but of a century'schanging attitudes. The early anti-Chinese racism was horrific, andeven 40 years ago it was hard for a Chinese to emigrate here, letalone become a citizen. The ambitions, fears, loves and sorrows ofSee's huge cast are set forth with the storytelling skills of anovelist?and a great, sprawling novel is what her book oftenresembles. There are times when it flags and the constant new namesbecome tiresome, and a heartfelt but superfluous chapter on actressAnna May Wong disrupts the flow; but the book is a striking pieceof social history made immediate and gripping. Photos. 60,000 firstprinting; Literary Guild alternate. Copyright 1995 Reed BusinessInformation, Inc.From School Library JournalYA?In 1871, Fong Seeleft his village in China to find his father and three olderbrothers, who had come to the U.S. years earlier. He found hisfather running an herbal emporium in Sacramento; when the manreturned to China, Fong See remained, and his brothers followed himinto a new business?manufacturing split underwear for prostitutes.An orphaned teen, red-headed Letticie Pruett, was determined toprove herself indispensable to Fong See in his work, especially inhis dealings with whites. The story of Ticie and Suie becomes themajor thread of this family history. The evolution of the F. See OnCompany, one of Los Angeles's major Asian art stores; the give andtake of Ticie and Suie's marriage; the lives of their fourchildren; their journeys back to China; their divorce; Ticie'ssingle life; and Suie's new family enliven this saga. Teens areoffered an initimate glimpse of these people and witness instanceafter instance of the discrimination they suffered.?BarbaraHawkins, Oakton High School, Fairfax, VACopyright 1996 ReedBusiness Information, Inc.

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