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Uniform Title Jinshan ge ji. Selections. English.
Title Songs of Gold Mountain : Cantonese rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown / [selected and translated by] Marlon K. Hom
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 322 pages) : maps
Contents An introduction to Cantonese Vernacular Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown -- Immigration Blues -- Lamentations of stranded sojourners -- Lamentations of estranged wives -- Nostalgic Blues -- Rhapsodies on Gold -- Songs of Western influence and the american-borns -- Nuptial Rhapsodies -- Ballads of the Libertines -- Songs of the young at heart -- Songs of prodigals and addicts -- Songs of the hundred men's wife
Summary Contains 220 of the folksongs from Songs of Gold Mountain (Chin-shan ko chi) published in 1911 and 1915
Notes Contains 220 of the folksongs from Songs of Gold Mountain (Chin-shan ko chi) published in 1911 and 1915
English and Chinese
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English and Chinese
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Subject Chinese poetry -- California -- San Francisco -- Translations into English
Chinese poetry -- California -- San Francisco
Chinese poetry -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese poetry
Emigration and immigration
Anthologie
Chinesisch
Lyrik
Geschichte (1911-1915)
SUBJECT China -- Emigration and immigration -- Poetry
California -- Emigration and immigration -- Poetry
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Poetry
Subject California
California -- San Francisco
California -- San Francisco -- Chinatown
China
San Francisco, Calif.
Chinesisch.
Genre/Form Poetry
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Hom, Marlon K
ISBN 9780520913363
0520913361
0585275696
9780585275697