Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town
Gillenkirk, Jeff; Motlow, James
Language: English
Published by Heyday Books, 1993
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. unread. Jacket not price-clipped. The Sacramento Delta was home to thousands of Chinese immigrants.Bitter Melon; is a collection of moving oral histories and stunning historical photographs. It offers an unforgettable glimpse into this unique and vibrant community. // shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.
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- Title
- Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town
- Author
- Gillenkirk, Jeff; Motlow, James
- Publisher
- Heyday Books
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0930588584
- ISBN 13
- 9780930588588
Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town is a collection of moving oral histories and stunning historical photographs (all printed in duotone), offers an unforgettable glimpse into this unique and vibrant community, and in doing so contributes significantly to our understanding of immigrant experience in California.
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About the Author
James Motlow is a freelance photographer; his photographs have been published in many magazines and journals and have been exhibited in both individual and group shows. He has moved back to the town of Locke where he is part of an artist's cooperative housed in the "Moon Café" on Main Street. Come and visit!
Sucheng Chan (introduction) is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910 and Asians in California History.
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