Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
"A good introduction to the Chinese American experience and  literature  through the songs of a particular area. . . . It would make an exciting  text."  --David R. Mayer, Asian Folklore Studies"An enjoyable and informative work which will be of value to  anyone  studying the Chinese experience in America."  --Jeannette L. Faurot,  Journal of  the American Oriental Society"Dispels once and for all stereotypes of Chinese immigrants as  the  'heathen Chinese'  --the foreign, docile, illiterate, and sexless  character  popularized in American literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth  century." (Judy Young, Amerasia Journal