The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America 9780618651160

Traces three generations of a Chinese-American family from its patriarch's self-invention as an immigration broker

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The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
9780618651160

"The Lucky Ones" uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Ma

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This book surveys the conceptions of motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood that emerge from the practices of agencies.

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Exploring the relationship between the eight extraordinary vessels, and the zangfu and extraordinary organs, this ground

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“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner

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Introduction : inventing Edison -- Inventing electric light -- Civic light -- Creative destruction : Edison and the gas

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Every day he stood exactly where he was directed. He listened for his number, shouted his answer in the freezing cold. H

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Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning with his sear

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A description of the family in rural, its traditions, principles of kinship, and place in society. It focuses on topics

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The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written—for the first time—by a Busch heir. As an heir to the Anheuser-

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CCP = Coercive Control Party

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