Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America by James Motlow, Jeff Gillenkirk

Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America

James Motlow, Jeff Gillenkirk

142 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In 1915 a group of immigrants from the Zhongshan area of southern China built Locke, their own town in the California Delta. In 1971, a young photographer named James Motlow became one of the handful of non-Chinese living in Locke. As he came to k...

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