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 | Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown (1st Edition) by Marlon K. Hom Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1992 ISBN-10: 0-520-08104-8 / 0520081048 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-08104-8 / 9780520081048 Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the | |