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During the gold rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
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Chinese Cinderella volume 2
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Memoir of a young girl growing up in a wealthy but dysfunctional Chinese family during the 1940s.
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Image Global Impact
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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When Diana Lu was three years old, her world turned upside down. China's Cultural Revolution was under way, and Diana's family was forced to leave their comfortable, educated, middle-class life in the city. They relocated to an impoverished coal-mining village at the edge of the Gobi Desert, where they were to be "re-educated." Life in that remote place was a constant struggle against hunger, cold, and fear.
