chinese americans

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chinese americans

Yang the second and her secret admirer

1998
While her younger siblings have embraced many American customs since moving from China to Seattle, Yinglan Yang clings to her Chinese heritage, so her brother and sister hatch a plan to convert her to American culture.

The lost garden

1990
The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.

Dragonwings

2001
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Wingman

1975
To escape the problems of being poor and Chinese, Donald begins to cut school to climb the George Washington Bridge where he meets Wingman, a sort of Chinese Superman.

Bury my bones in America

the saga of a Chinese family in California, 1852-1996, from San Francisco to the Sierra gold mines
1998

Tracks

2013
An Irish boy and a Chinese boy become friends, despite their mistrust and prejudices, while working on the Transcontinental Railroad in 1866.

Tea that burns

a family memoir of Chinatown
1998
Bruce Edward Hall uses stories about his Chinese ancestors to trace the history of Chinatown.

Living for change

an autobiography
1998
An autobiographical account of the experiences of a Chinese-American woman and her African-American husband.

Bitter melon

stories from the last rural Chinese town in America
1987

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