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385 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780295987149
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 19 June 2007
Description
"Wooden fish songs" were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed to America in quest of the good life - and found instead years of indentured servitude and racial discrim...
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385 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780295987149
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 19 June 2007
Description
"Wooden fish songs" were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed to America in quest of the good life - and found instead years of indentured servitude and racial discrim...