#hardcover #fiction #chinese #family #immigrant #immigrantstory #literary 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

A Novel

A River of Stars

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Library discard #hardcover #fiction #chinese #family #immigrant #immigrantstory #motherhood #California #maternityhome 

New Jersey

#engrossing #language #literaryfiction #chinese #chineseauthor

A dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...

Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion shatters the building. A shard of glass neatly pierces Li Jing's forehead--obliterating his ability to speak Chinese. The only words that emerge from his mouth are faltering phrases of the English he spoke as a child growing up in Virginia. Suddenly Li Jing finds himself unable to communicate with his wife, Meiling, whom he once courted with beautiful words, as she struggles to keep his business afloat and maintain a brave face for their son. The family turns to an American neurologist, Rosalyn Neal, who is as lost as Li Jing--whom she calls James--in this bewitching, bewildering city, where the two form a bond that Meiling does not need a translator to understand.

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Chinese favorites 

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Arkansas

Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1903

Will Windrider take to the skies? Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met. But Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with Moon Shadow's help is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, the separation from his wife and country'even the great earthquake'to make his dream come true.

Dragonwings

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#chinese #immigrant #immigrantstory #family #fiction #literary

South Carolina

#hardcover #chineseenglish #dictionary #language #chinese
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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Far East Chinese English Dictionary

Arizona

Slight wear around the edges. Pages crisp and clean. Ships same or next day. SKU 51622013 #fiction #paperback #cultural #culturalrevolution #paperwork #chinese #novel 

Florida

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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#1060 #hardcover #china #fiction #chinese #amytan #mothers #daughters #family #ww2 #deathanddying #familysecrets #generationalhealing #trauma

Idaho

A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings

The Kitchen God's Wife

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#paperback #fable #chinese #folktale #readaloud

Ohio

The classic picture book about five clever brothers, each with a different extraordinary ability, has been in print for almost 80 years.

"An original nonsense tale told with...spirit and gusto." -- The Horn Book

The Five Chinese Brothers

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#paperback #fiction #historicalfiction #japanese #chinese #history #japan #ww2 #history #historical 

Shortly before World War II, a Chinese man, sent to Japan to recover from tuberculosis, meets a lovely Japanese girl and four older residents, in a story of passion and sacrifice

The Samurai's Garden

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#paperback #fiction #chinese #cultural #historicalfiction #lovestory 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family, trapped like a good-luck cricket in a bamboo-and-lacquer cage. Though raised to be obedient, Peony has dreams of her own. Peony’s mother is against her daughter’s attending the production: “Unmarried girls should not be seen in public.” But Peony’s father assures his wife that proprieties will be maintained, and that the women will watch the opera from behind a screen. Yet through its cracks, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man with hair as black as a cave–and is immediately overcome with emotion. So begins Peony’s unforgettable journey of love and destiny, desire and sorrow–as Lisa See’s haunting new novel, based on actual historical events, takes readers back to seventeenth-century China, after the Manchus seize power and the Ming dynasty is crushed. Steeped in traditions and ritual, this story brings to life another time and place–even the intricate realm of the afterworld, with its protocols, pathways, and stages of existence, a vividly imagined place where one’s soul is divided into three, ancestors offer guidance, misdeeds are punished, and hungry ghosts wander the earth. Immersed in the richness and magic of the Chinese vision of the afterlife, transcending even death, Peony in Love explores, beautifully, the many manifestations of love. Ultimately, Lisa See’s new novel addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age-old desire of women to be heard.

Peony in Love

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#paperback #fiction #cultural #culturalrevolution #paperwork #chinese #novel 

#paperback #EnglishEdition #chinese #characterwriting #specialedition #outofprint #mandrain 

An Introduction to Chinese Writing for Children

Hu is a Tiger: Intro to Chinese Writing ✍️ 

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Indiana

#paperback #fiction #cultural #culturalrevolution #chinese First Anchor Books Edition 2002

Washington

#hardcover #italian #mexican #chinese #cuisine #food #worldfood #cookbook #recipes

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

3 books in 1

Italian, Mexican, & Chinese

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Chinatown. City within a city. Home to street cobblers and herbalists, tai chi masters and kung fu students, outdoor fish markets and lots and lots of restaurants. And best of all, when the Chinese New Year begins there's a New Year's Day parade, complete with a lion dance.
Young readers will be equally fascinated by the tour of this colorful neighborhood--and by their tour guide and his grandma who live there.

Chinatown

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#hardcover #fiction #amytan #chinese #contemporaryfiction #domesticfiction #drama #family 

Texas

Master storyteller Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters in this New York Times bestseller. “The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.”—Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother's lifelong wish—and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember...

The Joy Luck Club

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Winner of the 2000 Book Award in Prose from the Association for American Studies and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for 2002!

The award-winning author of Pangs of Love triumphs with "a work that manages to be consistently funny, infinitely sad, and surprisingly exhilarating... truly memorable." (Newsday)

The Barbarians Are Coming

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#paperback #fiction #fantasy #childrens #chinese #juvenilefiction #asianheritage #gracelin 

Pennsylvania

Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.

Vanessa Hua

A River of Stars

Vanessa Hua

A River of Stars

Ruiyan Xu

The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai

Pil cookbooks

Chinese favorites

Laurence Yep

Dragonwings

Vanessa Hua

A River of Stars

Far East Company

Far East Chinese English Dictionary

Laurence Yep

Dragonwings

Sijie Dai

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Amy Tan

The Kitchen God's Wife

Claire Huchet Bishop; Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)

The Five Chinese Brothers

Gail Tsukiyama

The Samurai's Garden

Lisa See

Peony in Love

Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Peggy R. Goldstein

Hu is a Tiger: Intro to Chinese Writing ✍️

Lisa See

Peony in Love

Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Various

Italian, Mexican, & Chinese

William Low (Illustrator)

Chinatown

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

David Wong Louie

The Barbarians Are Coming

Grace Lin

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Joshua Hough

Chinese Calligraphy

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