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Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture. She tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 218 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
Author
Publisher
Moment of Lift Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling...
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