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Running on the cracks

2009
After her parents are killed in an accident, English teenager Leonora Watts-Chan runs away to Glasgow, Scotland, to find her Chinese grandparents.

The ghost bride

a novel
2013
When she agrees to become a ghost bride for the wealthy Lim family's son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances, Li Lan must dive into a shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife to find the truth.

A free life

2007
The Wu family cuts their ties with China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and start a new life in America, where each struggles to adapt to their new surroundings and find financial security and success.

Good morning China

2007
Pictures and easy-to-read text portray the activities and routines of Chinese people on a typical morning in the park.

Chinese immigration

2004
An overview of immigration from China to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, when immigration laws were changed to permit greater numbers of people to enter these countries.

Precious gold, precious jade

2000
A young woman befriends a Chinese family despite the racism and fear that overwhelm the residents of her small western mining town at the end of the gold rush.

Fu-Dog

1990
Li-La and her brother, Malcolm, go to visit her great uncle in London after he sends her Fu-Dog as a present.

The bone collector's son

2004
In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and of his father.

Dead man's gold and other stories

2003
A collection of ten short stories by Paul Yee about Chinese immigrants struggling to make new lives for themselves in North America.

Fatima the spinner and the tent

2006
A series of misfortunes finally brings Fatima to China where she is asked to make a tent for the Emperor.

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