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The Eighth Promise : : an American Son's Tribute to his Toisanese Mother

Lee, William Poy, 1950- Book - 2007 973.049 Le 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 3.5 out of 5

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A Chinese village, a Chinese-American community submitted by patricia alvis on January 24, 2008, 11:19am This book is well chosen for Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads. In my book club, I heard repeatedly the reaction I had--this is a vivid account of much that I never knew about the culture that accompanied the Chinese who came to America to live. It is, further, a glimpse inside the constricted community life in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Told in terms of the members of Lee's family, it is sympathetic and convincing as it tells their story alternately in the voices of the son and his mother. She keeps her Eighth Promise to raise a Chinese family, even as she finds her American personality in Reno gambling casinos. Her American children give small nod to being Chinese as they respond to the politics of minority experience in the era of the sixties Civil Rights movement.

Good personal memoir(s) plus Asian-American history submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 12, 2022, 12:10pm I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which started as a memoir of the author’s mother and turned into a memoir of his own life, sharing the journey of what it meant to grow up as a Toisanese-American in Chinatown in California. Lee details the treatment of Asian Americans throughout American history as well as his own and his family’s journey. He writes with a deft hand of the joys and challenges, and I was completely drawn in as a reader. Highly recommended. This was the Washtenaw Reads book in 2008.

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PUBLISHED
Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 315 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1594868115
159486456X
9781594864568

SUBJECTS
Lee, William Poy, -- 1950- -- Family.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Mothers -- Biography.
Mothers and sons -- Case studies.
Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Taishan Shi (Guangdong Sheng, China) -- Biography.
Taishan Shi (Guangdong Sheng, China) -- Social life and customs.