It is the inspiration for an exhibition at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, which will run from August 2000 to January 2001. ON GOLD MOUNTAIN was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book. The result is a vivid, sweeping family portrait in the tradition of Alex Haley’s Roots that is at once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles immigrants like no other culture in the world. She interviewed nearly one hundred relatives- both Chinese and white, rich and poor- and pored over documents at the National Archives and several historical societies, and searched in countless attics, basements, and closets for the intimate nuances of her ancestors’ lives. As an adult, See spent five years collecting the details of her family’s remarkable history.
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