Lim Yik Choy, The Story of a Chinese Orphan
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1932].
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Good+ dust jacket. 252 pp, bound in illustrated yellow cloth. Small bump to upper right corner of front board, previous owner's ink stamp on front pastedown, else a fine copy, in the scarce original dust jacket, which has some chips, tears, and scratches, but remains reasonably presentable. Inscribed on the title page: "Compliments of Charles R. Shepherd." According to William F. Wu in The Yellow Peril, Chinese Americans in American Fiction (2022), "Charles R. Shepherd wrote Lim Yik Choy from his experience as the superintendent of the Chung Mei Home for orphaned Chinese American boys in El Cerrito, California, a position that he held for twenty-five years. This novel is a biography of the boy for whom it is named, commonly referred to as Ah Choy, who spends crucial years of his orphaned childhood in Morrison House, which represents the Chung Mei Home. The fictional superitendent, George Douglas, represents Shepherd himself. Ah Choy immigrates from China with an adopted uncle, who dies in the United States. Ultimately, he overcomes his handicaps as an orphan and a young Chinese immigrant and graduates from college. Shepherd presents a straightforward account of the reacision Ah Choy faces as well as his efforts to deal with it."
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