Gold Mountain Wives: Rhapsodies in Blue‪.‬

An Essay by Tan Bi'an in Xinning zazhi (1949) Translator's Note: This essay, entitled "Jinshan fu xing" (Rhymes of the Gold Mountain Women), was originally published in the 1949 issue of Xinning zazhi, a magazine published in Taishan county since 1909. The magazine enjoyed wide circulation both in the Cantonese Siyi (four counties) regions and in Chinese immigrant communities in North America before World War II. It focused mainly on the lives of overseas Chinese in Taishan emigrant communities and on news about the Americas. Until 1949, it regularly reported U.S. immigration news and activities against Chinese settlement in North America. It was truly a first transnational magazine, bridging both sides of the Pacific for Chinese Americans and their families in southeastern China.