Browse Items (76 total)

  • Collection: CALA Best Book Award Collection

一粟浮沉

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"It is valuable as a literature reading with proficient narrative skills. The good plot of story with well described historical background reflects the suffering of people during different historical periods and their humanities." This book has won…

Position: 59 (575 views)

曹冲称象

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"This is a juvenile literature book of retelling of a traditional Chinese story to English-speaking kids and excellent illustration with accurate period details for costume, architecture, etc. Also a wonderful tie-in with STEM curriculum with…

Position: 62 (573 views)

Collecting Asia: East Asian Libraries in North America, 1868-2008

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).

Position: 378 (430 views)

Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/Chinese America

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).

Position: 392 (425 views)

Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveler from the East: A Cultural Biography

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This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).

Position: 228 (476 views)

Iron Widow

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"Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk…

Position: 710 (283 views)

Interior Chinatown

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"Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he…

Position: 378 (430 views)

The boy from Clearwater: Book 1

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"Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Qingshui, recounts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Qingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai's…

Position: 1071 (38 views)

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

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"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)