The Fortunes reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. John Ling Smith, half-Chinese, visits China for the first time to adopt a baby girl there he sees the long history of both cultures coming together in the spark of a new century. The death of Vincent Chin, aspiring all-American, becomes the symbol for a community roused to action in the face of hatred. Anna May Wong, the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, is forbidden to kiss a white man on screen she must find her place between two worlds and two cultures. Ah Ling, son of a prostitute and a white man, is sent from his homeland to make his way alone in California he rises to valet for a powerful railroad baron and unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor. The fortunes / Peter Ho Davies Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Booksīoston New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016Ī community survives as much through love as blood.
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