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Shu-Li, whose family moved to Canada from China two years ago and runs a deli in Vancouver, befriends Tamara, a new girl in her neighborhood, but the relationship is threatened by a nasty rumor.

Recounts the author's experience with adoption of a Chinese girl, discussing the problem of abandoned babies found every day in China and examining the country's policies on reproduction and topics such as human rights, poverty, and infanticide.

A recent immigrant from Ireland to San Francisco in 1880, Shannon is ready to start school, but is dismayed that her Chinese friend is forbidden by law to attend and that many of her classmates are prejudiced against the Irish as well.

Chin Chiang has long dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance, but when the first day of the Year of the Dragon arrives and he is to dance with his grandfather, he is sure he will shame his family and bring bad luck to everyone.

Contains essays and field reports in which the authors share their opinions on why the government of China decided to dam the Yangtze River with the massive Three Gorges Dam, scheduled for completion in 2011, and discuss the dangers the dam poses to people, culture, and the environment.

A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family.

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.

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

When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867.