One Book/One Glendale presents Lisa See
"On Gold Mountain" Book Event at Glendale College
"Shanghai Girls" Book Event at Glendale Public Library
Thursday, October 1
Eugene Moy, past president Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Bridging the Centuries: Chinese in Southern California and the San Gabriel Valley
SR 138 noon
Tuesday, October 6
Victor Nebrida, Instructor of History
America and the Philippines: A Historical Examination
SR138 5-6 pm
Thursday, October 8
Francien Rohrbacher, Assistant Professor of English
Glendale Community College Faculty/Student Book Club discusses Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls
SR 115 noon
Thursday, October 15
Hazel Ramos, Instructor of History
Asian American History: From Opium Wars to Gold Mo
Thursday, October 22
Mike Dulay, Associate Professor of Psychology
Becoming American: A Psychological Analysis
SR138 noon
Wednesday, October 28
Lisa See: Shanghai Girls
Glendale Central Library evening lecture
Shanghai Girls is a dramatic story of two sisters who immigrate from China to Los Angeles in the late 1930s.They struggle to balance their family’s history and cultural traditions with their new lives in America.
Thursday, October 29
Glendale Community College’s Staff Development Office presents
Lisa See: On Gold Mountain
Glendale Community College Auditorium noon (book signing to follow) noon
On Gold Mountain is a sweeping portrait of See’s family members. This meticulously researched family history chronicles See’s family members’ lives in a Chinese village, their journey to America as “Gold Mountain” men, and their years in Los Angeles.
On Gold Mountain Overview
On Gold Mountain is a family history of the novelist Lisa See beginning with her great- great-grandfather, a poor peasant from rural China who decided to go to “Gold Mountain” (the United States) to make his fortune. See does a great job of describing the social and political backdrop against which her Chinese-American merchant family developed. Since See discusses family and gender dynamics, technology, economics, art, racism, communism, film, food, sex and a hundred other topics in both China and the US from the mid-19th through the mid-20th century, many of our social science classes should be able to integrate elements of her text into their classroom discussions this fall. The front of the book contains maps of China, Los Angeles, including Old and New Chinatowns, a family tree, and a forward in which Lisa See recalls spending time with her grandparents in Chinatown when she was a child.
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