• Jinshan geji (Songs of the Gold Mountain [San Francisco])
  金山歌集

Uniform title:

• Jinshan ge ji.
• 金山歌集

Publisher:

• Jinshan : Da guang shu lin, Xin hai [1911]-Minguo [1915]
• 金山 : 大光書林, 辛亥[1911]-民國4年[1915]

Extent:

• 2 volumes (57, 62 double leaves) ; 21 cm

Format:

• Book

Description:

• Cover title.

Subject:

• Chinese poetry—California—San Francisco
• Chinese poetry—20th century
• China—Emigration and immigration—Poetry
• California—Emigration and immigration—Poetry
• Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)—Poetry
• Poetry

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99124484893506421

Curator's notes:

• Cantonese Chinese
  San Francisco (Jinshan 金山), 1911–1915, paper

  Published in San Francisco (‘Gold Mountain’ in Chinese), the Songs of the Gold Mountain is a poetry collection by Chinese immigrants in a Cantonese folk style. The volumes were printed by the bookstore Tai Quong in a hybrid form: the first volume is bound in the Chinese thread-bound style, the second in a more Western style, while inside the layout remains Chinese, but the paper and technology are Western.

  East Asian Library Special Collections, PL3164 .J567 1911

  For further reading

  Hom, Marlon K. (sel. and tr.) Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Exhibit category:

• The East Asian tradition
• The East Asian book: variations and elaborations