China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston
- New York Alfred A. Knopf 1980
- 308 p
On discovery -- On fathers -- The father from China -- The ghostmate -- The Grandfather of the Sandalwood Mountains -- On mortality -- On mortality again -- The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains -- The laws -- Alaska China men -- The making of more Americans -- The wild man of the Green Swamp -- The adventures of Lo Bun Sun -- The American father -- The Li Sao: an elegy -- The brother in Vietnam -- The hundred-year-old man -- On listening.
A history of the men in the author's family. Describes their pains and joys as they become American.