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1	Joy Luck Club more books like this by Amy Tan When June's mother dies, she is invited to join a long-standing club of Chinese women who urge her not only to take her mother's place at the mah-jongg table, but also to carry the news of her mother's death to her step-sisters in China. Through the stories of the women and their daughters, the values of different generations are articulated. June ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bonesetter's Daughter more books like this by Amy Tan Ruth Young and Art Kamen live together in San Francisco, and the deterioration of their relationships renders Ruth unable to speak. Her Chinese mother, LuLing, who now has Alzheimer's, is another complicating factor in her life, but the diary she kept as a young woman still exists, and when Ruth reads it she comes to a better understanding of her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Hundred Secret Senses more books like this by Amy Tan Olivia is 3 years old when she discovers she has a half-sister, Kwan, who lives in China. When Kwan arrives to join the family, she reveals her secret to Olivia--she has visions and communicates with ghosts. Many years later, Kwan tries to encourage Olivia not to give up on her marriage to Simon and convinces them both to travel to China with her. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Thousand Pieces of Gold more books like this by Ruthanne Lum McCunn A reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies Lalu Nathoy's father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. She is sold first to a brothel, then to a slave merchant bound for America. In a new ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel more books like this by Ruthanne Lum McCunn This masterful biographical novel--which has sold more than 100,000 copies--tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Dim Sum of All Things more books like this by Kim Wong Keltner Bridget Jones meets "The Joy Luck Club" in this hip and funny first novel in which 20-something Lindsey Owyang tries to deny her affinity for Peking duck and Hello Kitty toys, lusts after "white devils," all while living with her irreverent grandmother who sets Lindsey up on blind dates with grandsons of her mahjong partners. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The flower drum song more books like this by C. Y. Lee Originally published in 1957, one of the first novels of the Chinese-American experience is now back in print to tie in with the Broadway revival. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Paper Daughter: A Memoir more books like this by Elaine M Mar, M Elaine Mar When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful. While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt's house, Mar quickly masters English and begins to excel ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $9.01! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women from the Middle Kingdom to Middle America more books like this by Leslie Chang In 1947, the Communists took over China, and four remarkable women were forced to flee their homeland. Arriving in Taiwan in 1948, Dolores, Suzanne, Margaret, and Marx, met at the elite First Girls' School, the "narrow gate" where a lucky few could become eligible for U.S. visas. In this refuge, their characters were built, their friendships were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
10	Monkey king more books like this by Patricia Chao This debut novel explores a young Chinese American woman's breakdown and recovery. An incest victim, Sally Wang winds up first in a mental institution, then at the home of her nurturing aunt and uncle in Florida, and has a liberating affair. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Paper Daughter: A Memoir more books like this by M Elaine Mar Born in Hong Kong, the author immigrates to America at the age of 5, where the family lives in Denver and Elaine tries desperately to fit into an alien culture. Finally, faced with her mother's devotion to tradition, she must leave home in order to find out who she is. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	China Tapestry: Four Romantic Novellas more books like this by Tracey V Bateman, Susan K Downs, Judith McCoy Miller This enchanting collection starts in the 1700s and features a connection withsilk and other Chinese materials and traditions in 1880, 1937, and today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Crossings more books like this by Chuang Hua, Amy Ling (Afterword by) A powerful story of one woman's displacement between cultures and traditions--a landmark in Asian-American literature. When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua's evocative novel "Crossings" was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	To Be the Poet more books like this by Maxine Hong Kingston A manual on conjuring the elusive muse, this volume is Kingston's manifesto, avowal, and declaration of a writer who turns to poetry exclusively. Kingston delivered the 2000 William Massey lectures at Harvard, on which this book is based. Illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Love Made of Heart more books like this by Teresa Leyung Ryan Ruby is 27 and has a good job, but when her mother leaves her father and moves in with her, life becomes problematic. As she deals with her mother's crisis, Ruby is forced to reexamine her own childhood to try to understand what has gone wrong with her family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior: A Casebook more books like this by Say-Ling Cynthia Wong (Editor), Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong This casebook present a thought-provoking overview of the critical, debates surrounding Kingston's The Woman Warrior, perhaps the best known contemporary Asian American literary work and reputedly the most widely read title in American universities today. The essays deal with the reception of the work by various interpretive communities, canon ... see all copies from $4.65! new only from $5.75! \| SVS
17 view cover	When Strange Gods Call more books like this by Pam Chun Ancient family rivalries threaten a pair of lovers in this Shakespearean love story, set in Hawaii. "When Strange Gods Call" is a lyrical tale of love lost and rediscovered in a lush land full of ghost stories, magic, and the powerful voices of its island gods. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
18 view cover	Unbound Voices: A Documentary History Chinese Women S.F. more books like this by Judy Yung An invaluable and finely-crafted collection of oral histories, narratives, interviews, essays, photographs, and memoirs, documenting more than half a century of Chinese immigrant women's lives in the San Francisco area. see all copies from $2.43! new only from $27.50! \| SVS
19 view cover	Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations more books like this by Catherine Forslund She held few government posts, yet she was a strong influence on the course of U.S.-Asian relations in the last half of the twentieth century. The Chinese-born wife of General Claire Chennault of World War II Flying Tigers fame, Anna Chennault was a leader in America's informal relations with East Asia from 1950 to 1990. Professor Catherine ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Magic Whip more books like this by Ping Wang, Wang Ping This melodic, visceral collection -juxtaposes the author's unbridled joy in motherhood with the complex and brutal practice of footbinding in China, the plight of Tibet, and the remarkable endurance of survivors everywhere. "The Magic Whip" pays particular attention to women and children whose ordeals have been -imprinted on their very bodies and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives more books like this by Huping Ling, Ping Linghu The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years. Surviving on the Gold Mountain is the first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years. Relying on archival documents (many of which have never been used), oral history interviews, census data, contemporary ... see all copies from $13.94! new only from $20.69! \| SVS
22 view cover	Flower Drum Song more books like this by David Henry Hwang, Oscar Hammerstein, Joseph Fields "A funny and clever radical revision of the 1958 Broadway hit."-"Time "magazine "An artistic success, revealing a revitalized score and a dramatic complexion that's far richer than the original."-"Variety" "One of the Year's 10 Best."-"Los Angeles Times" One of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most compelling love stories is re-made enchantingly in a new ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $7.80! \| SVS
23	Chinese Women of America: A Pictorial History more books like this by Judy Yung see all copies from $1.99! signed copies
24 view cover	Amy Tan more books like this by Mary Ellen Snodgrass In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more hugely popular novels to follow. Tans workonce pigeonholed as ethnic literature, a niche market with limited appealresonates with universal themes that cross ... see all copies from $10.42! new only from $47.94! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Essays from the Heart: A Mother's Gift to Her Daughter more books like this by Judith Kan Kan wanted to give her elder daughter a high school graduation gift she could not buy anywhere -- so she has given her the gift of wisdom. Her essays blend the cultures of East and West and express values that any parent would want to impart to a young person embarking on adulthood. The author asked a few close family friends -- a delightful cast ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions

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