The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
A Thoroughly American History: A Talk with Historian Iris Chang
While Iris Chang was writing her international best-seller, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, her hair started falling out. Small wonder,...
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Make sure you get this one into your library – it's the very first collection of historical writings by and about APA women. It's about rethinking our collective past as...
The re-release of the 10-million copy-strong bestselling epic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, opens with a brand-new introduction by the author. First published in 1991, Chang chronicles the lives of her concubine...
First trade paperback edition of the harrowing memoir of a 6-year-old child who becomes separated from her family in the last days of World War II in Okinawa,...
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When Sabina Murray heard she had won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for her short story collection The Caprices, she was so surprised that she hardly believed it. Not until the house began to rapidly...
In the final chapter of The Chinese in America, Iris Chang writes, "I can only close this book with a fervent hope: that readers will recognize the story of my people – the Chinese in the...
Newly released paperback edition of critically acclaimed autobiographical novel which details the life of a young boy in 1930s Japan through World War II, whose father is a secret anti-war activist and...
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A children’s version of the Polly Bemis story – called the Pacific Northwest’s most famous Chinese American pioneer – released in time for the 150th anniversary of Bemis’ birth in 1853.
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Oda, known for his outspoken anti-war sentiments, captures a group of loyal, patriotic Japanese soldiers on a South Pacific island during the final days of World War II, who are mere pawns of a...
The paperback re-issue of a collection of essays on all things Japanese by the world’s most famous honorary almost-Japanese.
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