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Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The author reflects on her family's Chinese American legacy, her experiences as a writer, her survival of natural disasters, and her struggle to manage three family members afflicted with brain disease.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of Tie Sing, a Chinese trail cook, who was hired by millionaire Stephen Mather to cook for him and his associates as part of Mather's efforts to create a national park service and for whom Sing Peak in Yosemite is named.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years...
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