chinese

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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.

Shanghai girls

a novel
2009
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 American proves more difficult than they expected.

The jade peony

a novel
1997
Describes the life of a Chinese immigrant family living in Vancouver, Canada's Chinatown during the years before World War II. The three children in the story find adult friends who take the places of their endlessly working parents.

Flowers for Mei-ling

1997
Mei-ling Wang, the daughter of an English mother and a Chinese father who share the Communist vision, is forced to flee her homeland in 1968 in the midst of political turmoil, embarking on a journey of self-discovery that will lead her to reexamine her beliefs about herself and her country.

The concubine's children

1995
A true story of the author's family--of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by a sojourner to the New World, of the man's wife and children who would be left behind, and of the author's own discovery of those children six decades later.

The hunting of the last dragon

2003
In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon.

Chin Chiang and the dragon's dance

1984
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.

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