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Guide Picks - Books on Chinese American Women
1) Surviving on the Gold Mountain : A History of Chinese American Women & Their Lives
By Huping Ling, paperback, 256 pages, 1998, ISBN: 0791438643
"Surviving on the Gold Mountain is a significant addition to our too-scanty scholarly literature about Chinese American women. In addition to her historical skills, Huping Ling brings to it her irreplaceable experience as a recent student emigrant from the People's Republic of China. It is a contribution to both the history of immigration and the history of women." --Roger Daniels
2) Essays From the Heart : A Mother's Gift to Her Daughter
By Judith Kan, paperback, 2000, ISBN: 1581510616
"Written as a gift for her daughter's high school graduation, a mother reviews the lessons life has taught her. Essays From The Heart is a book that shares wisdom, advice, love, family history, and the importance of roots and wings with subtle humor and honesty." --Book Description
3) Fifth Chinese Daughter
By Jade S. Wong, paperback, 246 pages, 1989, ISBN: 0295968265
"A sensitive and revealing story of a Chinese American girl's coming of age in America. It is unique." --New York Herald Tribune
4) Paper Daughter
By M. Elaine Mar, paperback, 304 pages, 2000, ISBN: 0753196239
"Mar grew up in two different worlds--that of her strict Chinese parents and the unfamiliar and strange American culture at school. Whereas Elaine's childhood was spent adjusting to a foreign culture, her parents had faced hunger and poverty in China." --Booklist
5) The Joy Luck Club
By Amy Tan, Hardcover, 2001, ISBN: 0791063380
"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life." --The Publisher
6) My Sisters' Voices : Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
By Iris Jacob, paperback, 246 pages, 2002, ISBN: 080506821X
My Sisters¡¯ Voices is a passionate and poignant collection of writings from teenage girls of African American, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, and biracial backgrounds. --Book Description
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