Wooden Fish Songs

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Original title: Wooden fish songs

earliest edition we have, 1995 Dutton, 1995 384 pages

In nineteenth-century China, "Wooden Fish Songs" were the laments sung by Chinese women for their men who went looking for a better life on "Gold Mountain" - America. In the novel Wooden Fish Songs, the voices of three extraordinary women speak across the decades to tell the story of one such real-life pioneer - Lue Gim Gong ("Double Brilliance"). After years of virtual indentured servitude in the West and New Engla...

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Wooden Fish Songs paperback · 2007 · University of Washington Press · 385 pages · 9780295987149
Wooden fish songs edition · 2000 · Beacon Press · 384 pages
Wooden Fish Songs edition · 1996 · Penguin Publishing Group · 9780452273467
Wooden fish songs edition · 1995 · Dutton · 384 pages

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