chinese americans

Aisling Juanjuan Shen, the daughter of illiterate peasant parents in a poor rice-farming hamlet in China, recounts how she overcame her poverty stricken beginnings and the gender biases of the Chinese government and business world to find success and happiness in modern China.

Autobiography of physician and writer Adeline Yen Mah, discussing her emotionally abusive childhood, experiences of isolation and loneliness, success as a student, and triumphant struggle to achieve freedom and a new life.

The story of a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcame poverty, foot -binding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom in the American Northwest.

Carnegie Wong's mother never approved of her son's marriage to an American, and when she arranges for a mainland Chinese nanny for Wong and Blondie's children, Blondie fears her mother-in-law had an ulterior motive--even from the grave.

Contains seven essays in which the author shares his thoughts and experiences as a Chinese American.

A collection of eight stories in which the author chronicles the lives of Chinese and other Americans in search of the American dream.

Mona Chang, the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, fully embraces the ideals of freedom and converts to Judaism in the first of many rebellions she stages in her search for individualism while growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

Katie is the only one in her class who has not lost a tooth, but despite all of her efforts, her wiggly tooth refuses to come out.