The Chinese American Family Album

Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Secondary Author: Thomas Hoobler
ISBN: 9780195124217

Turn the pages of your family scrapbook or picture album and faces and memories leap out at you. Even if you never knew or don't remember some of your relatives, the snapshots and keepsakes make them familiar, and the old family stories never fail to bring a laugh and a warm memory. Now turn through the albums of other families - many other families - and see their grandfathers' and great-grandmothers' faces and read their stories. Why did they leave the old country? How did they get to America? What did they do when they got here? Why did they live the way they did? What did they think of the new homeland? What did other people think about them? How did they get along? The family album holds some of the answers. The Chinese American Family Album is a scrapbook of family letters and diary entries, official documents, newspaper articles, and excerpts from literature of the past and present - a personal remembrance of an extended family of Chinese immigrants and their descendants. As we

Publisher: Turtleback Books
Publish Date: 1998-05-01

Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 19th Century, Juvenile Nonfiction / History / United States / 20th Century

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Asian-American/Asian)