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Tomorrow in Shanghai by May-lee Chai [in Booklist]

05 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

In her newest story collection, May-lee Chai (Useful Phrases for Immigrants, 2018) shifts dexterously between the personal and the fantastical. Four of the eight stories feature autobiographical stand-ins who are, like Chai, the daughter of a Chinese father and white mother whose formative years are defined...

Dragon Chica by May-lee Chai

15 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Cambodian American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Southeast Asian American

May-lee Chai’s second novel is one of those titles to consider reading from the end, in this case with the "Acknowledgements," where the Chinese Caucasian hapa Chai recounts her long personal involvement with the Cambodian American community. At 15, writing for her Midwest hometown newspaper in the...

Hapa Girl: A Memoir by May-lee Chai [in Christian Science Monitor]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Hapa/Mixed-race, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

hapa-girl1Hapa Girl: A Memoir is a disturbing book in that the author is younger than I am, that the harrowing events are hardly distant, and most of all, that I have young hapa children of...

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