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Sisters Pearl and May Chin are forced into marriages to Chinese men living in America after their father gambles away his wealth; but life in America proves more difficult than they expected.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.