American Visa by Wang Ping [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
02 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories
Eleven interrelated short stories about young Seaweed, a determined young woman in China during the Cultural Revolution in search of higher education. She endures "reeducation" at a remote village labor camp, gets herself into...
Hoping she will get over her latest romance, Karen’s parents send her to spend her 15th summer with her unusual, eccentric Aunt Augusta. There in her new environment, Karen makes new friends, finds new...
A young woman, the child of a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother, grows up in New York housing projects trying to make sense of...
Middle daughter Ona unexpectedly commits suicide, leaving the other Leong family members to try and figure out why. The suicide acts as a pivotal point from which two very different Chinese American generations of parents and...
A follow-up to the seminal
Cathy Song, 1982 winner of the prestigious 
Award-winning second poetry collection, about relationships between family and lovers.
Review: 
Angel Island was the West Coast entry point for potential Asian immigrants and returning Asian Americans. An elaborate interrogation process kept people detained there, in limbo, for up to two years. In 1970, a park ranger...
Jade Snow Wong is the American-born fifth daughter of Chinese immigrants. Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Jade Snow must come to terms with two diverse worlds: a traditional household which strictly...
Lisa See’s great-great-grandfather arrived in the U.S. from China more than 100 years ago, followed by his son who eventually became one of the most successful Chinese American antiques merchants. The Fong...
A personal memoir of Min’s difficult young life in China during the brutal Cultural Revolution. From Shanghai to an intense labor camp to menial labor in a film studio – until she finally escapes...
A history made up of myth and memory of generations of Chinese American men: from the grandfather who worked on the transcontinental railroad to a father who ran a laundry and danced like Fred...
A young girl grows up in the San Francisco Bay Area divided amidst the stories and myths of her parents’ faraway past in China and her own experiences as an immigrant’s daughter coming of...
An Asian American historical classic, focusing on the Chinese in America – from the first Gold Mountain settlers to contemporary activists and shop owners – told through both personal narratives and extensive interviews, using...
Most likely the first historical text to examine the experiences of Chinese American women over a 150-year history, utilizing personal interviews, photographs, and long-overlooked documents. Could also be suitable for...
Using the backdrop of San Francisco, Yung traces the vibrant history of Chinese American women who arrived at the turn of the century as the property of their husbands or even as slaves, and...
An illustrated history book which traces the presence of Chinese in America, from the first written proof (a Buddhist priest arrived in Canada and...
A historical look at the Chinese American experience from early pioneers to modern day heroes. Through personal histories, 
Two plays by pioneer 
Two important plays on the Asian American experience: Paper Angels, a groundbreaking one-act play about Chinese immigrants detained on the West Coast immigration center, Angel Island, debuted in 1980 and was produced by American...