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Sweet Bamboo - A Memoir of a Chinese American Family (Paperback)
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Sweet Bamboo - A Memoir of a Chinese American Family (Paperback)
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"Sweet Bamboo" is the vivid and absorbing memoir of a Chinese
American family who lived in Los Angeles since the first years of
the twentieth century. Lovingly recounted by the second daughter,
who went on to become the first Asian American reporter for a major
American newspaper, this account illuminates the many changes that
occurred in the family as members increasingly became integrated
into American society. While much of the attention given to Chinese
immigrants has focused on the struggles of working class people,
this book sheds new light on a different kind of immigrant
experience - that of privileged Chinese parents and their children
living in relative affluence in a predominantly white neighborhood.
The family saga begins in China's Kwangtung Province, in the
village of Gum Jook (Sweet Bamboo), about 31 miles south of Canton.
It follows Louise Leung Larson's parents through their arranged
marriage in 1898, to their arrival in Los Angeles, the birth of
three daughters and five sons (named after American presidents),
and her father's development of a successful herbalist business.
Larson's intimate portrait of her family, her lively depiction of
Los Angeles at the turn of the century, and her engaging
descriptions of meals eaten, holidays celebrated, school events,
visits from relatives, and much more make this a richly textured
excursion into the dreams and disappointments of everyday life. The
death of the author's mother in 1957 marks the end of an era for
the Tom Leung family. An epilogue brings the story to the late
1980s, tracing the intermarriage of the third and fourth
generations, and the family's diminishing sense of its Chinese
identity. A postscript by the author's daughter, Jane Leung Larson,
provides details of the fourth and fifth generations Leungs and
recounts Jane's trip to China where she visited her parents'
birthplaces and met relatives from both her grandmother's and
grandfather's families. Taken together, these keen observations
illustrate several generations' adaptation to dual cultures and the
formation of a unique Chinese American sensibility.
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