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The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Vintage)
by Eric Liu  
Publisher Comments Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore. In these compellingly candid essays...
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New York City's Chinese Community (Images of America)
by Josephine Tsui Lee Publisher Comments Beginning in the late 19th century, Chinese immigrants arrived in New York City with hopes of more opportunity for better lives. Once confined to a few streets in downtown Manhattan, the Chinese people gradually moved throughout the city. Their rich...
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Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community
by Peter Kwong Synopsis Taking a hard look at the unique and painful experiences of Chinese immigrants trying to make America their home, this work explores the various ways Chinese Americans have negotiated between assimilating and maintaining ethnic identity. Photos....
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The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream
by Irene Kai
Publisher Comments In The Golden Mountain, Irene Kai tells a deeply personal story of how she overcame cultural bias and a difficult mother to move from China to America and become an independent woman. The child of a loveless arranged marriage, Kai was born into a culture...
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
by Marie Rose Wong Book News Annotation Around the turn of the 20th century and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second-largest Chinese population in the US. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatownsone an urban area of brick commercial structures, the other a...
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Chinese in St. Louis: 1857-2007 (Images of America)
by Huping Ling Publisher Comments In 1857, Alla Lee, a 24yearold native of Ningbo, China, seeking a better life, came to St. Louis. A decade later, Lee was joined by several hundred of his countrymen from San Francisco and New York who were seeking jobs in mines and factories in and...
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The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America
by May Lee Chai Publisher Comments A family memoir set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: the Chai family matriarch, Ruth Mei-en Tsao Chai, dies unexpectedly and her grieving husband discovers that she had secretly...
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Chinese in Boston:: 1870-1965 (Images of America)
by Wing Kai To Publisher Comments Chinese Americans in Boston trace their historical origins to pioneering settlements of merchants, workers, and students in different parts of New England. After the 1880s, hundreds of Chinese arrived in Boston. Beginning as a bachelor male &...
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Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American (Asian American Experience)
by Shehong Chen Synopsis Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans between 1911 and 1927....
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Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures)
by Shehong Chen Publisher Comments Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans between 1911 and 1927....
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A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
by Liping Zhu Synopsis Offers a fresh interpretation of the full range of Chinese experiences in the West and challenges stereotypical images of Chinese pioneers....
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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 in America (03 Edition)
by Iris Chang Publisher Comments In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a peoples search for a better lifethe determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to...
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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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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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