Accidental Heroes, Accidental Villains
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by Ed Chung
Price: $9.50
Book Website: http://www.edchung.net
310 Pages, Paperback, 5 x 8
ISBN-10: 0-578-02748-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-578-02748-7
The book traces five generations of a Chinese family, from the mid-1800s to the present, and portrays the family's struggles with racism, riots, revolutions, world wars, and triads (organized crime). Geographically, the story spans the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and China. While the characters are fictional, they are set in historically correct chronologies.
Lee Sing Mun left China in 1857 for the United States, first to search for gold and later as a labourer on the railroads. The Chinese Exclusion Act, and a gang of racist thugs, forced him to return to China, and his wife in 1882. Little did he suspect that this was the beginning of his family's intimate role in the next 150 years of Chinese history. Nor did he suspect that one day, his legacy would span a multinational enterprise caught in a vicious circle of honour and sin.
Will the Lee family ever escape the cycle of crime and violence that has haunted it for generations?
About The Author
This is Ed Chung's first novel. He practices and teaches applied anthropology, and has published many nonfiction articles. Chung is a self-proclaimed history buff, and is fascinated by the dual Chinese philosophies of Confucianism and Taoism.
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