The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

The Lucky Ones

One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

2010 • 288 pages

Traces three generations of a Chinese-American family from its patriarch's self-invention as an immigration broker in post-gold rush San Francisco, through the landmark 1885 case involving one daughter's efforts to integrate California schools, to the family's intimate involvement in the 1904 World's Fair.

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