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Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War (Asian American History & Culture)
by K Scott Wong  Synopsis Chinese Americans created the pervasive image of Asian Americans that still resonates today....
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Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel (Asian Voices)
by Ruthanne Lum Mccunn Publisher Comments This masterful biographical novel—which has sold more than 100,000 copies—tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn...
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of...
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Oakland's Chinatown (Images of America)
by William Wong Publisher Comments Oakland's Chinatown has a history every bit as compelling as its more famous neighbor across San Francisco Bay. Chinese have been a presence in Oakland since the 1850s, bringing with them a rich and complex tradition that survived legalized...
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Chinese in Chicago
by Chuimei (edt) Ho Publisher Comments The first wave of Chinese immigrants came to Chicagoland in the 1870s, after the transcontinental railway connected the Pacific Coast to Chicago. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented working-class Chinese from entering the U.S., except men who...
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Chinese in San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley (Images of America)
by Lillian Gong Guy Publisher Comments The fertile Santa Clara Valley—once called the Valley of Heart's Delight and later Silicon Valley—has long been home to a substantial Chinese population. Like other immigrants, they arrived seeking opportunity and armed with survival...
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Chinese American Voices (06 Edition)
by Judy Yung Publisher Comments A collection of sixty-two documents that convey the rich diversity of Chinese American experience, many originally written in Chinese, and most never before published....
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White Snake and Other Stories
by Geling Yan Publisher Comments Writing on the broad canvas of recent Chinese history, Yan Geling offers us sharply moving, intimate portraits of women and men who experienced that history in the most deeply felt ways: as lovers, as artists, as friends. Set in China, Tibet, and in the...
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Forbidden Workers : Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor (97 Edition)
by Peter Kwong Publisher Comments "A gripping expose" (Publishers Weekly) of the conditions faced by Chinese illegal aliens in the United States....
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The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
by Diana L Ahmad Synopsis America's current struggle with drug addiction is not the nation's first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium...
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A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Asian Voices)
by Sasha Su-Ling Welland Publisher Comments A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown...
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Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law (Studies in Legal History)
by Lucy E Salyer Publisher Comments Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles...
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Good Luck Life
by Rosemary Gong Publisher Comments Good Luck Life is the first book to explain the meanings of Chinese rituals and to offer advice on when and how to plan for Chinese holidays and special occasions such as Chinese weddings, the Red Egg and Ginger party to welcome a new baby, significant...
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Beyond the Narrow Gate
by Leslie Chang Synopsis Lifting the veils of secrecy that have so long hung over the "bamboo generation, " "Beyond the Narrow Gate" is the brave and moving story of four Chinese girls and their ultimate passage through the "narrow gate" in Communist China to America....
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Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion (Politics, History, and Culture)
by Estelle T Lau Publisher Comments "Original, detailed, and methodologically rigorous, "Paper Families" shows not only how the Chinese Exclusion Act shaped the identities of Chinese immigrant communities and individuals but also how the efforts of Chinese Americans in turn altered the...
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Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom
by K S Tom Publisher Comments For readers of Chinese descent, this entertaining book adds to understanding their heritage. For others, it brings an appreciation of things Chinese....
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The Money Dragon
by Pam Chun Publisher Comments In this stunning work, Pam Chun brings a new and powerful voice to the traditions of Chinese-American fiction. The Money Dragon brings to life the saga of L. Ah Leong, the Money Dragon, one of the legends of Hawaii and the founder of Honolulu's Chinatown....
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Paper Shadows a Chinatown Childhood
by Wayson Choy Publisher Comments Three weeks before his 57th birthday, novelist Wayson Choy received a surprising phone call during his publicity tour: a mysterious woman told him that he had been adopted. Inspired by this astonishing revelation, this beautifully-wrought memoir reveals...
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Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town
by Jeff Gillenkirk Publisher Comments Bitter Melon is the timely and touching chronicle of Locke, constructed in 1915, the only town in America built and inhabited exclusively by Chinese. The exquisite photographs of James Motlow and oral histories from local residents evoke the spirit of...
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Revolutionaries, monarchists, and Chinatowns :Chinese politics in the Americas and the 1911 revolution
by L Eve Armentrou Ma Book News Annotation Ma (Chinese history, California State U., Hayward and Mills College) examines the history of the Chinese in the Americas, especially North America and Hawaii, and finds the competition between radical reformers, pro-Sun Yat-sen revolutionaries, and...
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