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"In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is…
Position: 351 (439 views)
Dragon Road: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1939
This book has won the 2009 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).
Position: 177 (497 views)
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Fiction).
Position: 205 (485 views)
Exhalation
The collection, entitled Exhalation, written by science fiction author Ted Chiang was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2019. It includes nine unique and fascinating short stories. Among them, seven stories had been published before and won Hugo and…
Position: 331 (445 views)
Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).
Position: 335 (444 views)
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American…
Position: 518 (372 views)
Front Desk
"Author Kelly Yang tells a story about the family of Chinese immigrants who has been struggling with every day’s life, from the view of a ten-year-old girl who takes over the front desk of a motel that her parents manage. With her parents, this…
Position: 84 (554 views)
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
Gordon Chang, a history professor at Stanford and co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North American Project, wrote the remarkable book Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad which…
Position: 410 (418 views)
Girl in Translation
This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).
Position: 362 (436 views)
God of Luck
This book has won the 2008 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Fiction).
Position: 234 (474 views)
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