{"product_id":"9780670829613","title":"The Concubine's Children: The Story of a Chinese Family Living on Two Sides of the Globe","description":"After Chan Sam, a Chinese peasant, left his homeland to seek his fortune in the New World, he sent for a young concubine to live with him. In \u003ci\u003eThe Concubine's Children\u003c\/i\u003e, Denise Chong tells her family's story, woven together from letters, photographs, and memories to create an unsentimental portrait of a family living on different sides of the globe.  \u003cp\u003eThere's Chan Sam, the husband from afar to Huangbo, the \"at-home\" wife who survived the Japanese occupation of China and the rule of Mao Zedong while rasing their son and the concubine's two Canadian-born children left in her care. There's May-ying, who supported the struggling Chan Sam and the family in China on wages earned on the waitressing circuit of West Coast tea houses. The concubine's third daughter, Hing, the author's mother, grew up on this side of the ocean. It was she who unlocked the past for her daughter, whose curiosity about some old photographs ultimately reunited a family divided for most of this century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052199166192,"sku":"9780670829613","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780670829613_p0.gif?v=1763602917","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780670829613","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}