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The Chinese In America
By Iris Chang |
ORDER -- Item #3153, Price $29.95
In the course of her narrative, Chang chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendants: building the transcontinental railroad, working on southern plantations after the Civil War, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. At the heart of her book are the stories of individuals-the activists, workers, entrepreneurs, politicians, scientists, writers, and families whose lives, struggles, and victories have shaped and been shaped by this history.
Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history in an engrossing and passionately told account, Iris Chang offers a fresh view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but of what it is to be American.
"If you are hungry for the history of the American experience, The Chinese in America is must-read. We are fortunate to have the incomparable Iris Chang tell this important and timely story."
Book Description from Back Cover
Bestselling author Iris Chang takes on her largest subject yet in The Chinese in America, the extraordinary history of one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in the United States. In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day. Chang tells of a people's search for a better life-the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and destiny in a strange land, to help build their adopted country, and, often against great obstacles, to find success.
Comments from Back Cover
"In this richly detailed book, Iris Chang skillfully weaves together the broad Historical panorama of Chinese migration with fascinating case studies of individual Chinese immigrants and the lives they made for themselves in the United States. I know of no better introduction to this multilayered and emotionally charged story."
- JONATHAN D. SPENCE
- JAMES BRADLEY, author of FLAGS OF OUR FATHER
Background on Iris Chang
IRIS CHANG is the author of the international bestseller The Rape of Nanking. After graduating with a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm, told the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program. Iris Chang is the recipient of numerous honors, including the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award, the Woman of the Year Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and an honorary doctorate from the College of Wooster in Ohio. Her work has appeared in many publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives with her family in San Jose, California.
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