A superior man

Yee, Paul (author.).

Summary: After the CPR is built in 1885, Yang Hok, a former coolie, treks along the railway to return his half-Chinese/half-Native son to the boy's mother where he confronts the conflicts arising from road-building among the Chinese and Native peoples. Hok's guide on the often perilous trip, Sam Bing Lew, also of mixed Chinese-Native blood, urges Hok to take his son to China, while Hok has dreams of finding fortune in America. The two men agree on little, as many issues fester between Chinese and Natives at a time when both races were disdained as inferior by whites ("redbeards"). Boldly frank and steeped in history, A Superior Man paints a vivid portrait of the experience of the Chinese in North America in the 19th century.

Record details

ISBN: 9781551525907
ISBN: 1551525917
ISBN: 9781551525914
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015.

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