Books & Beyond
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Books & Beyond is a new podcast that finds good reads for you from a world of fascinating stories, one at a time. The shows will take you to China and other amazing places that might open up new doors in your life. Here at Books & Beyond, we believe our lives are enriched with nourishing reads, no matter where and how old you are. Find your next favorite audio adventure with Books & Beyond, for free.
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Ah Oi dressed as the bride to attend the wedding and helped Mag-gee to run off. But the plot unfolded with unexpected results.
Ah Oi, a low-ranking actress living in Chinatown in an American city, came up with a trick to help her friend Mag-gee to escape an unwanted betrothal.
Tian Shan was caught after having a fight with Fin Fan's admirer, and was ordered to be sent back to China by local authorities. Fin Fan was determined to keep Tian Shan’s company on the trip back to China.
Tian Shan was a brilliant Chinese man who took pleasure in crossing the border between the United States and Canada without customs approval. He was lucky enough to meet Fin Fan who admired his thrilling adventures.
Lin John, a hard laborer in America, would never understand why his sister valued a wealthy life above her own freedom.
Fin Fan took her six-month-old daughter to take part in a baby show to compete for a prize, which she hoped would make her husband proud and quit the idea of giving away their daughter.
Under “guidance” from his dead mother, Fou Wang realized that moving on with one’s life won’t get in the way of honoring the deceased.
“Will love conquer superstition?” The question emerged when O’Yam came across Fou Wang at a temple in Chinatown in San Francisco.
Fou Wang had been mourning his late mother for six months, during which O’Yam was pressured by her father to marry another man.
Following the death of Ah So Nan, Fou Wang, a young fisherman living in San Francisco, decided to dedicate three years to mourning his mother and isolating himself from all joys and happiness.
Yet, his resolve to following this traditional Chinese custom would hurt O’Yam, his fiancée.
Koan-lo the Second was unwilling to give up his lover Sie and claimed that he was the man she was to marry. His lie hurt both his elderly brother and Sie.
Yet at the end, he was forgiven after an honest confession.
Koan-lo the Second, a poor Chinese young man, came to pick up the wife-to-be of his elder brother who was a wealthy businessman in San Francisco. Yet the woman turned out to be his own lover.
Jack Fabian, a smuggler, was puzzled why a China “man” who had built a life in Canada would choose to leave everything behind and ask for his assistance to cross the border into America.
Following the death of her parents, Mermei had no one to talk to but her brother in Chinatown in San Francisco, until the arrival of another Chinese girl, Sin Far.
The couple finally received the paper to claim their son back. Yet after a 10-month separation, the baby could no longer recognize his own parents.
Five months after the baby boy was taken away from his Chinese parents, an American lawyer offered to travel to Washington to help the poor couple take their son back. It costed the couple a large fortune.
It became a long and torturing day for Lae Choo during which she waited for her baby boy to be returned to her.
Hom Hing, a Chinese merchant based in San Francisco, could do nothing while witnessing his two-year-old son being taken away by an American customs officer.
Wan Lin Fo expected Pau Tsu to become an Americanized woman within a few months. Such an unreasonable request came from his unconscious admiration for an American lady.
The feeling of being torn apart between two cultures reached a peak for Pau Tsu after she received treatment from a male American doctor upon her husband’s request.
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