During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make their fortunes in the goldfields or working on the railroads. Among them was 36-year-old...
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Author:Lawson, JulieSummary:On a trip to Chinatown, thirteen-year-old Jasmine steps through a doorway back in time and finds herself in the 1880s. 1994 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize — Winner 1994 Candian Library Association Book of the Year Award —...
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Author:Yee, PaulSummary:This collection of short stories by Governor General’s Award winning author Paul Yee takes readers into the lives of Chinese teens in Canada, who must deal with their cultural backgrounds as well as battle parents over schooling,...
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Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:In this new thriller in the exciting "Moose Jaw Adventure" series from best-selling writer Mary Harelkin Bishop, Andrea Talbot takes an unwilling third trip to the spooky tunnels under Moose Jaw and uncovers the exploitation of Chinese...
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Author:Leung, CarrianneSummary:The Wondrous Woo tells the story of Miramar Woo who is the quintessential Chinese girl: nice, quiet, and reserved. The eldest of the three Woo children, Miramar is ever the obedient sister and daughter ... on the outside. On the inside...
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Author:Li, Jessica Tsui-yan, Poy, VivienneSummary:Highlighting the geopolitical and economic circumstances that have prompted migration from Hong Kong and mainland China to Canada, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities examines the Chinese Canadian community as a...
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Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, manage to track down a cargo ship headed for New York City carrying two dozen illegal...
- Author:Chang, JanieSummary:
France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of...
- Author:Jen, GishSummary:
Chinese-American Carnegie Wong and his WASPy wife Blondie have two adopted children of Asian descent, Lilly and Wendy. The girls are a handful, but they are nothing compared to Carnegie's mother. Mama Wong's dislike for Blondie is...
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Author:Choy, WaysonSummary:This is a novel based on the short story written by Choy as a for a Creative Writing class taught by Carol Shields. Three children living in Vancouver's Chinatown tell three different versions of the same events.
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When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.
- Author:Wong, DukesangSummary:
Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has...
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Author:Yee, PaulSummary:Thirteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan must conquer his fear of ghosts as his father’s gambling debts force him to dig for human bones in a graveyard and then to work as a houseboy in a haunted house. Set in Vancouver’s Chinatown The Bone...
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Author:Walsh, AnnSummary:Presenting the three titles in the acclaimed Barkerville mystery series. This series based in 1860s British Columbia focuses on strange events in the life of teenager Ted MacIntosh. In Moses, Me, and Murder, Ted gets caught up in the...
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Author:Yee, Paul, Ng, SimonSummary:Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the IODE National Chapter Award. Drawing on the real background of the Chinese role in the gold rush, the building of the railway and the...
- Author:Feng, Linda RuiSummary:
A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful...
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Author:Roy, Zoë S.Summary:Thirty-two-year-old Kang is a new immigrant in Toronto. Having an older sister who was raped and suffers from the ensuing stigma in China, Kang is determined to remain a spinster, which has its own stigma in China, and she struggles...
- Author:See, LisaSummary:
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material...
- Author:Kwan, KevinSummary:
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! "Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." — Entertainment Weekly The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a...
- Author:Yang, KellySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang is back with another heartwarming and inspiring story of Mia and friends!Mia Tang is going for her dreams!After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family --...
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