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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Melanie Kirkpatrick, From Far East to American West; Thanks to a poker game,
she escaped the grim fate of so many Chinese women in 19th- century America
. Wall Street Journal, Feb. 3, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704022804575041481054004678.html
My comment:
(a) book review on
Christopher Corbett, The Poker Bride; The First Chinese in the West.
Atlantic Monthly Pres, 2010.
(b)
(i) Kirkpatrick (Gaelic) means a church ("kirk") dedicated to St. Patrick.
(ii) Polly and Molly a |
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