Author: MCCUNN, RUTHANNE LUM
Title: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in America
Description: San Francisco, CA: Design Enterprises Of, 1979. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0932538029. This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Ruthanne Lum McCunn was born as Roxey Drysdale on February 21, 1946, in Chinatown, San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong. [4] Her father was a Scottish American merchant seaman from Idaho, and her mother was from Hong Kong. Her parents met in the late 1930s when her mother came to San Francisco with a cousin to visit the World's Fair, where she met Ruthanne's father, fell in love with him and got married. Interracial marriage was illegal in California at the time so they drove to Washington, where a minister, who was a friend of her father's family, married them. For the duration of World War II, they lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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