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ISBN-10: 087286331X
ISBN-13: 9780872863316
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 01/01/2001
Dimensions: 8.51" L, 5.31" W, 0.51" H

Published by City Lights

Below the Line

Paperback

Price: $6.97

Overview

Whether it’s an old immigrant woman who loves to watch American action movies, or a young American-born woman who joins a film crew in China, these stories are about Chinese Americans trying to make sense of their divided history and culture. As both the immigrant and the American-raised generations succumb to some deeply American impulses, notions of home and language and self get misplaced, repositioned, changed, and history and memory are reinvented by nostalgia, dreams, and desire.

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Details

ISBN-10: 087286331X
ISBN-13: 9780872863316
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 01/01/2001
Dimensions: 8.51" L, 5.31" W, 0.51" H
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