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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See Publisher Comments Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Paper Daughter: A Memoir by M Elaine Mar Publisher Comments Chicken Bones and Mother's Milk My memory begins with the taste of chicken blood. Coaxed from the two-bone middle section of the wing, the crack of bone splintering between my teeth, the clotted marrow heavy on my tongue -- the memory of sweetness began... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eighth Promise: An American Son's Tribute to His Toisanese Mother by William Poy Lee Publisher Comments William Poy Lee received his bachelor's of architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Juris Doctor from Hastings College of Law, University of California, San Francisco. A lawyer since 1979, he lives in Berkeley, where he writes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang Publisher Comments Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking-a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during World War II. Many readers of The Rape of Nanking... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang Publisher Comments In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Chinatown: Revised Edition by Peter Kwong Publisher Comments Newspapers today are filled with stories of corruption and strife in America's Chinatowns, reversing the popular view of Chinese Americans as a model minority of law-abiding, hard-working people whose diligent children end up in high-tech jobs. In The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Vintage) by Eric Liu Publisher Comments What is race for? That bracing question animates every page of The Accidental Asian, a powerful work from one of the nation's leading young voices. In these personal and poignant reflections on assimilation, Eric Liu articulates a vision of American... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco by Judy Yung Publisher Comments An invaluable and finely-crafted collection of oral histories, narratives, interviews, essays, photographs, and memoirs, documenting more than half a century of Chinese immigrant women's lives in the San Francisco area.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Who Am I?: An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by Yi Fu Tuan Publisher Comments Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America's most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Historic Photos of the Chinese in California by Hannah Clayborn Publisher Comments The Chinese were a visible current in the tidal wave of humanity that rushed through San Franciscos Golden Gate in the mid–nineteenth century. Known to their countrymen as Gam Saan Haak (guests of Gold Mountain), Chinese immigrants sought great... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Overleaf Hong Kong by Xu Xi Publisher Comments For millions of wah kiu or overseas Chinese, life beyond China's borders is fraught with questions of identity. These eleven stories and thirteen essays take us round the globe, exploring the joys, fears, idealism, disappointments and dreams of the wah... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West by Helen Tse Publisher Comments Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unbound Voices: A Documentary History Chinese Women S.F. by Judy Yung Publisher Comments An invaluable and finely-crafted collection of oral histories, narratives, interviews, essays, photographs, and memoirs, documenting more than half a century of Chinese immigrant women's lives in the San Francisco area.... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods by Bonnie Tsui Publisher Comments The mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish markets. They can taste a world apart, listen... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On Gold Mountain by Lisa See Book News Annotation A family history tracing the route of the author's great- grandfather from his Chinese village to the United States, where he married a white woman and overcame the odds to become one of the richest Chinese people on "Gold Mountain," the Chinese name... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown by Chiou Ling Yeh Publisher Comments This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States--the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco--opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Chinese American Family Album (American Family Albums) by Dorothy Hoobler Publisher Comments The Chinese American Family Album is a scrapbook of family letters and diary entries, official documents, newspaper articles, and excerpts from literature of the past and present--a personal remembrance of an extended family of Chinese immigrants and... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale by Belle Yang Publisher Comments As a recent college grad, Belle Yang fled an abusive boyfriend who became a terrifying stalker. Back under the protection of her Old World Chinese parents, she sought escape in retelling and drawing her father"s stories about his family in Manchuria... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lucky Girl by Mei Ling Hopgood Publisher Comments Mei-Ling Hopgood was an all-American girl. She grew up in the Midwest, studied journalism at the University of Missouri, and became a reporter for a Michigan newspaper. Adopted when she was a baby, she was never really curious about her Asian roots. Then... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood Publisher Comments In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades. In 1974, a... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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