num_pages: 336
description: Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans. Hom has arranged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature.
language: English
title: Songs of Gold Mountain
titlecomplete: Songs of Gold Mountain
genres: History, China, Poetry
ratings_count: 18
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: American Book Award
publisher: University of California Press