Edward Orem

Slip-Slidin' Down Gold Mountain (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

There have gotta be better choices than beheading, hanging or slavery for the young son of a famous Cantonese martial hero and a legendary woman warrior-shaman. Northern California, 1850's: Heroes and villains from three cultures (Native Peoples, Chinese, Anglo) collide violently as they struggle to survive the raw, quickly-changing frontier society of the Gold Rush. This historical fiction novel in the wu jia genreAmerican styleis all action, with an edgy story of 114,000 words.

The woman warrior-shaman Yana from Mt. Shasta and the south China kung fu master Tai-Ying join forces to fight for the rights of their peoples. During their struggles, their destinies intertwine, they have a son, Ishi, and unite forces. Some of the trials Yana and Tai-Ying face include: their loss of personal freedom (slammed into Sailors Prison on the Embarcadero, SF); their escape from the US Army's grasp; organized racial bashing and extermination; collusion of US government and corporations with Triads in running drugs, arms, laborers, prostitutes.

Yana is faced with invading hordes of Anglo-European enemies who want to exterminate her tribe. As warrior-shaman she undergoes rigorous training that burdens her with choosing between a spiritual response to extinction or immediate guerilla warfare retaliation to save her people.

Tai-Ying, famous "Red Stick" hero of Kwangtung and the chief Enforcer for the Hung Muhn Society, arrives in Chinatown as a problem solver for the newly-arrived Chinese laborers. Landing smack in the middle of a war for valuable turf between the Tongs, Irish toughs, and prominent Anglo businessmen, he finds "Gold Mountain" to be a dark labyrinth of illegal trade between the Triads and the U.S. government.

Ishi, son of Yana and Tai-Ying, is sent away to the remote White Lotus Monastery in the Trinity Mountains to save his skinand the mysterious blue jade key, an 800-years old family treasure. ISHI's physical-mental-spiritual training at the Monastery, under mentorship of ABBOT CHAN and MARTIAL MASTER PAN, is instrumental in healing this boy who thinks he has lost both parents. Gradually Ishi realizes that Chan is providing the government with a strike team of warrior monks against the tribal coalition.

Livingston Lowe, from Back Bay Boston old money, is determined to earn his spurs as a canny predator in the wilds of unbridled American commerce of the Old West. The frontier reality demands he do whatever necessary to survive and succeed in businessincluding murder and sex-slaving.

Slip-Slidin' Down Gold Mountain is a work of historical fiction based on factnot politically-correct propaganda--and documented by the social history of California, Boston, and Kwangtung, China of the 1850's.

Slip-Slidin' Down Gold Mountain is an American wu-jia action-adventure story that weaves a story of cultural myopia, class warfare, gender models and manipulation, examining the differing mind-sets and behavior during the Gold Rush, and the impacts that have goose-stepped us up to the edge of self-extinction.

Notably, California was unique in being the first place in North America where the state officially sanctioned extermination of a race. This storyof people at the mercy of the governing eliteis not new. Slip-Slidin' Down Gold Mountain recounts a story of cultural myopia and its paradigm that have goose-stepped us up to the edge of self-extinction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edward Orem
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386939443
• Artikelnr.: 48209584

Autorenporträt

Edward Orem's mind-body studies began in 1964 and have included such diverse disciplines as Burmese kick-boxing, Shaolin Boxing, Hatha yoga, Kuang Ping T'ai-chi Ch'uan, Hsing-I Ch'uan, Kundalini Yoga, Pa Kua Chang, Chuan Fa, Tao Gah Chi Kung. His qualifications include B.A. in English, 8th Degree Black Belt (Zen Kempo-jitsu), 10th Degree Black Sash (Ch'uan Fa Kenpo), Certifications include Instructor of Tai-chi Chuan and Wu Shu Kung Fu. He was appointed to the Board of Directors, International Chinese Boxing Association, 2006-2011.

He has studied at American University, Georgetown University, California State University (Arcata), Nyingma Institute of Tibetan Studies, Chi-Kung Institute, and with 10 martial arts masters. Mr. Orem has taught privately in Wash., DC, Senegal, Guatemala, British Columbia, San Francisco, and Costa Rica, as well as through health and education service organizations. He has written, produced and performed in 30 training videos in the fields of natural health and fitness, martial arts, and has written several training manuals, as well as feature articles for a popular on-line martial arts magazine.

He was a regular consultant in stress reduction and instructor in exercise therapies with the Pitt River Indian Health Service, in northern California and has been Guest Lecturer at a community hospital, as well as Instructor at Central Oregon Community College. Workshops in various disciplines have been given in California, Oregon, and Florida. Mr. Orem offers private consultation in longevity arts, and teaches T'ai-chi Ch'uan, N. Long Fist, and Chi Kung through CenterPoint Integral Mind-Body Training, Costa Rica. Contact Mr. Orem through his website http://mindbodyimperative.strikingly.com Special attention and training: Golden Phoenix Rising (for mature athletes). Check it out.