The fortunes
Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-2016
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Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 simply for looking Japanese. John Ling Smith: a half-Chinese writer visiting China for the first time, to adopt a baby girl. Inspired by three figures who lived at pivotal moments in Chinese-American history, and drawing on his own mixed-race experience, Peter Ho Davies plunges us into what it is like to feel, and be treated, like a foreigner in the country you call home.
Main title:
The fortunes / Peter Ho Davies.
Author:
Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-, author
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2016.
Collation:
268 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780340980231 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6GF
LC class:
PR6054.A89145
Local class:
FTFICF
Language:
English
BRN:
1571640
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