Hapa Girl, A Memoir_______________________________________________________
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"Happy Girl [is a] searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland...The writing is vigorous, and Chai's descriptions of the murderous winters and corrosive boredom of the Great Plains are compelling..."

 - Time Magazine (Asia)
A Kiriyama 2008 Notable Book
 

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  Prologue  ▪  Video Book Trailer  ▪  Time Magazine Article / (PDF)
 
 
The Girl from Purple Mountain_____________________________________________
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“More than a good story packaged between glossy covers. It reveals the conflict between a daughter’s desire to know her heritage and her father’s desire not to be reminded how much distance the passage of time and the vicissitudes of history have placed between him and his origins.”

 - Washington Post Book World
 
 

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My Lucky Face____________________________________________________________
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“By the end of My Lucky Face, readers have grown to care deeply for this woman who faces so much adversity and yet continues to seek honest answers and fulfillment...she is a unique character in American fiction.”

 - San Francisco Chronicle
 
 

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Glamorous Asians_________________________________________________________
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“The beauty of this slim, evocative collection lies not only in the highly personalized portraits of Asian Americans, but also in May-lee Chai's gracefully nuanced writing.  It is a small treasure.”

 - Howard Goldblatt, award-winning translator of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum and Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man (with Sylvia Li-chun Lin)
 
 

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China A to Z______________________________________________________________
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“[A] lively, yet sophisticated guide to a big country that many Americans know little about even though it's assuming an ever-greater role in the global economy"

 - Newsday
 
 

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China A to Z______________________________________________________________
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“For those interested in life during the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century China, this autobiography offers a rich opportunity.  Ba Jin portrays the possibilities and challenges confronting a young Chinese in a revolutionary era"

 - Robert A. Scalapino, Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus, University of California-Berkeley
 
 

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