When gold rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese immigrants came through San Francisco seeking fortune. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a little-known Idaho legend as a lens into this Chinese experience. Before 1849, the Chinese in the United States were little more than curiosities. But as word spread of the discovery of gold, they soon became a regular sight in the American West. In San Francisco, a labyrinthine Chinatown arose where Chinese smuggled into the country were deposited. Polly, a young Chinese concubine, accompanied her owner to a mining camp in the highlands of Idaho. After he lost her in a poker game, Polly found her way with her new owner to an isolated ranch on the banks of the Salmon River. As the gold rush receded, it took with it the Chinese miners, but left behind Polly, who would make headlines when she emerged from the Idaho hills nearly half a century later to visit a modern city and tell her story. The Poker Bride>o? vividly reconstructs a lost period of history when the first Chinese sojourners flooded into the country and left only glimmering traces of their presence scattered across the American West.
發表於2024-11-24
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十九世紀末被賣到舊金山的中國女子,又被當作撲剋遊戲的賭注輸給瞭一個美國人,然後被帶到瞭西部深山裏生活瞭一輩子。本書並沒有講這個poker bride 的故事,隻是以她為引子,講述瞭淘金熱背景下中國人紛紛奔赴加利福利亞淘金,與此同時很多中國少女被賣到加州當妓女。無法掌握自己的命運,異國他鄉求生自然是各種辛酸艱辛。時代的悲劇,一聲嘆息。文字比較枯燥,讀到一半棄讀。
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評分十九世紀末被賣到舊金山的中國女子,又被當作撲剋遊戲的賭注輸給瞭一個美國人,然後被帶到瞭西部深山裏生活瞭一輩子。本書並沒有講這個poker bride 的故事,隻是以她為引子,講述瞭淘金熱背景下中國人紛紛奔赴加利福利亞淘金,與此同時很多中國少女被賣到加州當妓女。無法掌握自己的命運,異國他鄉求生自然是各種辛酸艱辛。時代的悲劇,一聲嘆息。文字比較枯燥,讀到一半棄讀。
評分十九世紀末被賣到舊金山的中國女子,又被當作撲剋遊戲的賭注輸給瞭一個美國人,然後被帶到瞭西部深山裏生活瞭一輩子。本書並沒有講這個poker bride 的故事,隻是以她為引子,講述瞭淘金熱背景下中國人紛紛奔赴加利福利亞淘金,與此同時很多中國少女被賣到加州當妓女。無法掌握自己的命運,異國他鄉求生自然是各種辛酸艱辛。時代的悲劇,一聲嘆息。文字比較枯燥,讀到一半棄讀。
評分十九世紀末被賣到舊金山的中國女子,又被當作撲剋遊戲的賭注輸給瞭一個美國人,然後被帶到瞭西部深山裏生活瞭一輩子。本書並沒有講這個poker bride 的故事,隻是以她為引子,講述瞭淘金熱背景下中國人紛紛奔赴加利福利亞淘金,與此同時很多中國少女被賣到加州當妓女。無法掌握自己的命運,異國他鄉求生自然是各種辛酸艱辛。時代的悲劇,一聲嘆息。文字比較枯燥,讀到一半棄讀。
The Poker Bride 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載