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  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

    by Mae Ngai ...
    This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience ( Publishers Weekly).In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics

    by Mae Ngai ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Bancroft PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History PrizeFinalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book PrizeHow Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.**In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Corky Lee's Asian America

    Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

    by Corky Lee ...
    **A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time“For generations, Corky taught us how to see ourselves—as individuals and as a community.”—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay TrueKnown throughout his lifetime as the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Chinese in America

    A Narrative History

    by Iris Chang ...
    A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

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    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Making of Asian America

    A History

    by Erika Lee ...
    A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Haves and Have-Yachts

    Dispatches on the Ultrarich

    by Evan Osnos ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London)From National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a “sharp…charming…regrettably timely” (The Washington Post) collection of essays exploring American oligarchy, billionaire culture, and the new Gilded Age, offering a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape—and sometimes warp—our so ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

    by Evan Osnos ...
    Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the National Book Award in nonfiction.As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.Age of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation.From abroad, we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
    In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese ... Read more

    $9.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oracle Bones

    A Journey Through Time in China

    by Peter Hessler ...
    A New York Times –bestselling intimate and epic portrait of twenty-first century China from the acclaimed author of River Town —A National Book Award Finalist and a Best Book of the Year: Washington Post , Christian Science Monitor , Entertainment Weekly , ... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States

    Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living free ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Among the Braves

    Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

    Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of four core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown.Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD