Bitter Melon
by Jeff Gillenkirk 
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A historical essay plus reports on many interviews are used to re-create the atmosphere of growing up in the all-Chinese town of Locke, California.Tags
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An oral history of Locke, CA., an old-fashioned Chinese-American community. Many stories and illustations can be found in this book, concerning the Chinese-Americans who came to the Sacramento Delta area from 1850 until the beginning of World War II. Most of these Chinese were farm-laborers, as one resident said: "It was very easy for a year to go by." For the majority, each season had its farm-labor rhythm -- spinach to asparagus to cherries to pears." Quotes from The New Yorker (magazine).
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- Canonical title
- Bitter Melon
- Original publication date
- 1987
- Important places
- Locke, California, USA
- Important events
- Chinese Exclusion (1882 -1942); Civil Rights Act (1964)
- Blurbers
- Coles, Robert
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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