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China Rich Girlfriend [Crazy Rich Asians 2] by Kevin Kwan

31 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Summer is waning way too quickly, but you still have a final week left to indulge in frothy reads: the over-the-top excesses of Singaporean Manhattanite Kevin Kwan’s novels might be just what you've been looking for as Labor Day looms. If you haven't yet relished Kwan's debut,...

Nanjing: The Burning City by Ethan Young

14 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Young Adult Readers

The late Iris Chang almost single-handedly taught the western world about the horrors of the Nanking Massacre in her 1997 The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Over six weeks that began with the Imperial Japanese Army's capture of China's then-capital city of...

Flood of Fire [Ibis Trilogy, Book 3] by Amitav Ghosh [in Christian Science Monitor]

04 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Flood of Fire brings the astounding, exceptional Ibis Trilogy to a close Readers of this review will fall into two categories: (1) Those who are already two-thirds invested in the Ibis Trilogy, and (2) Newbies who might be wondering if continuing the perusal of this review...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Danica Novgorodoff’s The Undertaking of Lily Chen

17 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village by Fang Suzhen, illustrated by Sonja Danowski, translated by Huang Xiumin

19 May, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, European, Fiction, Taiwanese, Translation

Xiao Le – whose name means "little joy" –hasn't seen his grandmother in "a long time." When his mother announces an impending visit, Xiao Le is happy at the thought of riding a train, and the chance to share his toy truck with his grandmother. When mother...

A Perfect Crime by A Yi, translated by Anna Holmwood [in Library Journal]

18 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

While most teenagers his age are assiduously studying for college entrance exams, the narrator instead plots the eponymous perfect crime. Sent away by his widowed mother, for whom he has little respect, he lives with his Auntie, a woman he "hates." She could have been...

Three Souls by Janie Chang + Author Interview [in Bookslut]

04 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

"We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this." Thus begins Canadian author Janie Chang’s debut novel, Three Souls, in which a dead woman will learn about a life that ended too quickly, and how she might...

The Four Books by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas [in Library Journal]

02 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Yan Lianke (Dream of Ding Village) has built his substantial career on exposing the surreal absurdity of China's 20th-century tragedies. His latest-in-translation features the 99th district of a reeducation camp, where intellectuals controlled by a maniacally cruel yet innocently naïve child endure merciless conditions...

The Dinner That Cooked Itself by J.C. Hsyu, illustrated by Kenard Park

13 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Korean American, Taiwanese American

"Long ago in China there lived an honest, respectful and hard-working man named Tuan." He hasn't had the easiest life, having lost his parents as a child. But he was blessed with kind neighbors who raised him. He's left his adopted nest, and lives by...

Frog by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Library Journal]

16 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Wan Xin, aka Gugu, is a revered obstetrician who has delivered generations of Gaomi Township citizens over the last half century. Yet for every live birth, she's aborted at least as many pregnancies, proving her patriotism by fervently upholding China's one-child policy; even relatives...

The Seventh Day by Yu Hua, translated by Allan H. Barr [in Library Journal]

15 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Yang Fei is dead. Arriving at the funeral parlor as directed, he's denied eternal rest because he has "neither urn nor grave"; over the next seven days, he revisits his short 41 years. Yang Fei was temporarily famous as "the boy a train gave birth...

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

26 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

I'm too much of a Luddite to know much about online gaming and avatars and such, but even a techno-backwards oldster like me can appreciate this feisty, original celebration of girl power. [Thankfully, the introduction offers just the right overview you'll need to understand enough.]...

Map of Betrayal by Ha Jin [in Library Journal]

24 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW CIA agent Gary Shang was convicted of spying for China yet called himself "a patriot of both the United States and China." Decades after Gary's death, Lilian, his only child with his American wife, unexpectedly inherits his diary from his longtime mistress and discovers...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Jean Davies Okimoto and Elaine M. Aoki’s The White Swan Express

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014

I Am China by Xiaolu Guo [in Library Journal]

18 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Chinese, Fiction, Repost

London-based Xiaolu Guo’s third novel in English (she published six prior in China) opens with a desperate love letter-in-transit "from a place I cannot tell you about yet…when I am safe I will be able to let you know where I am." Over almost 400...

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang

13 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Leslie T. Chang’s bio notes her gratitude to her immigrant parents for "forc[ing] her to attend Saturday-morning Chinese school" while growing up outside New York City. That multilingual skill clearly gave her privileged access during the decade she spent as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, while that lofty journalist...

The Mystery of Dragon Bridge: A Peach Blossom Village Story by Ann Howard

12 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Taiwanese American

Welcome to Peach Blossom, a faraway ancient farming village known for its peaches and almonds. The inhabitants rely on Dragon Bridge to get in and out, especially during the harvest season when they sell or trade their bounty in the neighboring town. One autumn, disaster occurs: Dragon...

What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Mae Besom

29 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Japanese American

It begins in mostly black and white ...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Black Flame

25 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Tibetan, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Crazy Rich Asians [Crazy Rich Asians 1] by Kevin Kwan

29 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

You might consider duct-taping your jaw shut because Manhattan-based Singaporean author Kevin Kwan insists on the veracity of the excesses in his outrageous, hilarious, train-wreck tragic debut novel: "So many aspects of and stories in the book I actually had to tone down!" he told...

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