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Chinese-Americans 1785-: Literature

Books

Cao, G., & Wang, T. (1993). Beijinger in new york [Pei-ching Jen Tsai Niu-yüeh.]. San Francisco: Cypress Book Co.

Chang, I. (2004). The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Penguin Books 

Chang, H. (1988). Elaine, mary lewis, and the frogs (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers.

Chao, P. (1997). Monkey King (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Chua, A. (2011).  Battle of the tiger mother. New York: Penguin Press.

Chin, F. (1981). The chicken coop chinaman, and the year of the dragon. Washington press:

Chin, F. (1988). The chinaman pacific & Frisco R.R. co. : Short stories. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.

Chu, L. (1995). Eat a bowl of tea (Carol Pub. Group ed.). New York: Carol Pub. Group.

Clark, H. F. The lady of the lily feet: And other stories of Chinatown. Philadelphia: Griffith & Rowland Press.

Fu, P. (2012). Bend, not break: a life in two worlds. New York: Portfolio/Penguin.

     In her autobiography, Ping Fu tells her story as she lived it--from child soldier and political prisoner to a CEO and "Inc." magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year.

Hall, B. E. (1998). Tea that burns: A family memoir of Chinatown. New York: Free Press.

Hall, B. E., & Low, W. (2004). Henry and the kite dragon. New York: Philomel Books.

Jen, G. (1991). Typical American. New York: Plume.

Jen, G. (1996). Mona in the promised land (1st ed.). New York: Knopf.

Jen, G. (2004). The love wife (1st ed.). New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House.

Jin, H. (2007). A free life (1st ed.). New York: Pantheon Books.

Kingston, M. H. (1990). Tripmaster monkey: His fake book (1st Vintage Books ed.). New York: Vintage International.

Lee, G. (1991). China boy: A novel. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Plume.

Lee, G. (1994). Honor & duty (1st ed.). New York: A.A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House.

Lee, G. (1998). No physical evidence (1st ed.). New York: Fawcett Columbine.

Lin, G. (2006). The year of the dog: A novel (1st ed.). New York: Little, Brown.

Look, L., & Heo, Y. (2001). Henry's first-moon birthday (1st ed.). New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Look, L., & Heo, Y. (2006). Uncle peter's amazing Chinese wedding. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Look, L., & Wilsdorf, A. (2004). Ruby Lu, brave and true. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Lord, B., & Simont, M. (1986). In the year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1st Harper Trophy ed.). New York, NY: HarperTrophy.

Louie, D. W. (2000). The barbarians are coming: A novel. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Martin, N. (2003). Flight of the fisher bird (1st U.S. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Children's Books.

McCunn, R. L. (1988). Thousand pieces of gold: A biographical novel. Boston: Beacon Press:

Namioka, L. (2003). Half and half. New York: Delacorte Press.

Ng, F. M. (1994). Bone (1st ed.). New York: HarperPerennial.

Ng, M. (1998). Eating Chinese food naked: A novel. New York: Scribner.

Pinkwater, D. M. (1981). Wingman. Old Greenwich, Conn: Listening Library.

Politi, L. (1960). Moy Moy . New York: Scribner.

Politi, L. (1978). Mr. Fong's toy shop. New York: Scribner.

Ryan, T. L. (2002). Love made of heart. New York: Kensington Books.

Sledge, L. C. (1997). A map of paradise. New York: Bantam Books.

Sui Sin Far, & Falvey, E. C. (1994). Mrs. spring fragrance. Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, Inc.

Sui Sin Far, NetLibrary, I., & the University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center. (1996). An autumn fan. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.: University of Virginia Library; NetLibrary.

Sui Sin Far, NetLibrary, I., & the University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center. (1996). The bird of love. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.: University of Virginia Library; NetLibrary.

Sui Sin Far, NetLibrary, I., & the University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center. (1996). Chan hen yen, a Chinese student. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.: University of Virginia Library; NetLibrary.

Sui Sin Far, NetLibrary, I., & the University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center. (1996). A Chinese Ishmael. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.: University of Virginia Library; NetLibrary.

Sui Sin Far, NetLibrary, I., & the University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center. (1996). A love story from the rice fields of China. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.: University of Virginia Library; NetLibrary.

Synon, M., NetLibrary, I., & the University of Virginia. Library. Electronic Text Center. (1995). Undesirables. Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.: University of Virginia Library; NetLibrary.

The year of the dragon. Takei, G., Suzuki, P., Treyz, R., et al (Directors). (2003, 19750115).[Video/DVD] West Long Branch, NJ: Kultur.

Tan, A. (1989). The joy luck club. New York: Putnam's.

Tan, A. (1991). The kitchen god's wife. New York: Putnam.

Tan, A. (1996). The hundred secret senses (1st Ballantine books domestic ed.). New York: Ivy Books.

Tan, A. (2001). The bonesetter's daughter. New York: G.P. Putnam's.

Trottier, M., & East, S. (1999). Dream stones. Toronto: Stoddart Kids.

Trottier, M., & Van Mil, A. (1995). The tiny kite of Eddie wing. Toronto: Stoddart.

Wang, P. (1994). American visa: Short stories. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.

Wong, S. (1991). Homebase. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Plume.

Wu, W. F. (1982). The yellow peril: Chinese Americans in American fiction, 1850-1940. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books.

Yang, B. (1994). Baba: A return to China upon my father's shoulders (1st ed.). New York: Harcourt Brace.

Yang, B. (2004). Hannah is my name (1st ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press.

Yang, G. L., & Pien, L. (2006). American-born Chinese (1st ed.). New York: First Second.

Yee, L. (2005). Stanford wong flunks big-time (1st ed.). New York: Arthur A. Levine Books.

Yep, L. (1975). Dragonwings (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Yep, L. (1977). Child of the owl (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Yep, L. (1979). Sea glass (1st ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Yep, L. (1991). The lost garden. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: J. Messner.

Yep, L. (1995). Later, gator. New York: Hyperion Books for Children.

Yep, L. (1997). The case of the goblin pearls (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Yep, L. (1998). The case of the lion dance. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Yep, L. (1998). The cook's family. New York: Putnam.

Yep, L. (1999). The case of the firecrackers. New York: HarperCollins.

Yep, L. (2000). Dream soul (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

Yep, L. (2003). The traitor: Golden mountain chronicles, 1885 (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollins.

Yep, L. (2005). The tiger's apprentice (1st Harper Trophy ed.). New York: HarperTrophy.

Yep, L., & Huang, B. (1998). The imp that ate my homework (1st ed.). New York: HarperCollinsPublishers.

Yin, & Soentpiet, C. K. (2001). Coolies. New York: Philomel Books.

Young, A. E. (1978). Land of the iron dragon (1st ed.). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

Zhao, X. (2010). The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press

      The 1965 Immigration Act altered the lives and outlook of Chinese Americans in fundamental ways. The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, in order to reveal the emergence of a new social hierarchy after 1965.

Poetry

Chin, M. (1994). The phoenix gone, the terrace empty. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.

Chin, M. (2002). Rhapsody in plain yellow. New York: W.W. Norton.

Franking, C. M. (1998). From ink and sandalwood . Warrensburg, Mo: Mid-America Press.

Glenn, M. (2000). Split image : A story in poems . New York: Harper Collins.

Greenlee, C. W. (2000). Wildflowers in the snow . Kelseyville, CA: Earthen Vessel Productions.

Izuki, S., & McCoy, B. F. (1994). Believers in america : Poems about americans of asian and pacific islander descent . Chicago: Children's Press.

Kingston, M. H. (2002). To be the poet . Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Lai, H. M., Lim, G., & Yung, J. (1991). Island : Poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940 . Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Lee, L. (1990). The city in which I love you : Poems . Brockport, N.Y: BOA Editions.

Liu, T. (1995). Burnt offerings . Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press.

Su, A. (2006). Sanctuary . San Francisco: Manic D Press.

Tsui, K. (1983). The words of a woman who breathes fire . San Francisco, CA: Spinsters, Ink.

Wang, L. L., Chao, I., & Waara, C. L. (1991). Chinese american poetry : An anthology . Santa Barbara; Seattle: Asian American Voices; Distributed by University of Washington Press.

Wang, P. (2003). The magic whip : Poems . Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.

Wong, N. (1997). Stolen moments . Goshen, Conn: Chicory Blue Press.

On Second Generation of the Immigrants

Cheng, S. H., & Kuo, W. H. (2000). Family socialization of ethnic identity among Chinese American pre-adolescents. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 31 (4), 463-484.

Chin, S. A. (1992). Hard life in a new home. (cover story). Scholastic Update, 125 (2), 27.

Chunxia Wu, & Chao, R. K. (2005). Intergenerational cultural conflicts in norms of parental warmth among Chinese American immigrants. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29 (6), 516-523.

Fong, R., & Wu, D. Y. (1996). Socialization issues for Chinese American children and families. Social Work in Education, 18 (2), 71-83.

Fuligni, A. J., Yip, T., & Tseng, V. (2002). The impact of family obligation on the daily activities and psychological well-being of Chinese American Adolescents. Child Development, 73 (1), 302.

Huang Ruowei. (2002). The voice of a Chinese teenager in America. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 42.

Huang Yingying. (2002). Hewing out a path in life. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 77.

Huang Yuwen. (2002). A warm family. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 73.

Lai Yunmin. (2002). Bits and pieces. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 63.

The only language she knows. Lim, G. and Okazaki, S. (Directors). (1983).[Video/DVD] San Francisco: Mouchette Films.

Liu Xiaofei. (2002). New york--this big family of world culture. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 60.

Lu Zhen. (2002). My new life. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 83.

Ou Shanlong. (2002). Work hard! Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 46.

Xiaoyu Yan. (2004). An exciting life. Chinese American Forum, 20 (1), 3-5.

Yang Sunqing. (2002). Resolve to be a successful person. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 53.

Yu-Wen Ying, Lee, P. A., & Tsai, J. L. (2000). Cultural orientation and racial discrimination: Predictors of coherence in Chinese American young adults. Journal of Community Psychology, 28 (4), 427-441.

Zheng Bixia. (2002). Pains and pleasures in the hearts of Chinese teenagers in America. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 4.

Zheng Jing. (2002). Only study can give me a future. Chinese Studies in History, 36 (2), 30.

Current Conditions

Hays, C. L. (1989). Immigrants strain Chinatown's resources. New York Times, 139 (48251), B1.

Hua Liang. (1998). Fighting for a new life: Social and patriotic activism of Chinese American women in New York city.. Journal of American Ethnic History, 17 (2), 22.

Kwong, P., & Lum, J. (1988). Hard labor in Chinatown: How the other half lives now. Nation, 246 (24), 858-860.

Lui, M. T. Y. (2004). The Chinatown trunk mystery : Murder, miscegenation, and other dangerous encounters in turn-of-the-century new york city . Princeton, N.J. : Woodstock: Princeton University Press.

Mui, S. R. (2004). Becoming an invisible people. Chinese American Forum, 20 (1), 6-8.

Rauch, J. (2003). Coming to America. Atlantic Monthly (10727825), 292 (1), 30-30.

Roderick, K. (2007). Life on the levee. Smithsonian, 38 (6), 32-32.

Sachs, S. (2001). Within Chinatown, a slice of another China. (cover story). New York Times, 150 (51822), 1.

Swerdlow, J. L., & Chang, C. (1998). New York's Chinatown. National Geographic, 194 (2), 58.

Wang, D., & Reyes, X. A. (2003). Family-school relations as social capital : Chinese immigrant parents in the U.S. (Ph. D., University of Connecticut;).

White, S. E. (1933). My Ming collection. Saturday Evening Post, 206 (11), 12-41.

Xu, L. (2003). Acculturation stress, social support and maternal satisfaction within immigrant chinese families. (Ph. D., The University of Connecticut).

Yu Zhou. (2000). The fall of 'the other half of the sky'? Chinese immigrant women in the New York area. Women's Studies International Forum, 23 (4), 445.

Movies

Americanese 2006

Carved in Silence

Chan is missing 1982

China: Land of My Father

Chinatown: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco  by Felicia Lowe

Chinese Couplets by Felicia Lowe

The Curse of Quon Gwon 2005

Daughter of shanghai 1937

Daughter of the Dragon

Dim Sum: A little Bit of Heart 1985

Dim Sum Funeral 2008

Eat a Bowl of Tea 1989

Hollywood Chinese 2007

Joy Luck Club 1993

Phantom of Chinatown 1940

Pingpong Playa 2007

Saving Face 2004

Shanghai Kiss 2007

The toll of the sea 1922

The world of Suzie Wong 1960

Year of the Dragon 1985

Year of the Fish 2007