Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Chinese Cinderella volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Memoir of a young girl growing up in a wealthy but dysfunctional Chinese family during the 1940s.
Author
Publisher
Image Global Impact
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
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.