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Chinese American History (nonfiction)
1.
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
by:
Iris Chang
4.30 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
by:
Erika Lee
4.05 avg rating — 228 ratings
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by:
Lisa See
3.95 avg rating — 11,026 ratings
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American Born Chinese
by:
Gene Luen Yang
3.88 avg rating — 100,062 ratings
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Asian American Dreams
by:
Helen Zia
4.17 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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The Girl with Ghost Eyes
by:
M.H. Boroson
3.86 avg rating — 4,419 ratings
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
by:
Helen Zia
4.47 avg rating — 5,197 ratings
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Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants
by:
John Jung
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Making of Asian America: A History
by:
Erika Lee
4.32 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
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Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans) (Volume 13)
by:
Him Mark Lai
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ghosts Of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
by:
Gordon H. Chang
3.86 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
by:
Mary Ting Yi Lui
3.74 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
by:
Nayan Shah
3.97 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco
by:
Anthony W. Lee
4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present
by:
Judy Yung
4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
by:
Erika Lee
3.92 avg rating — 157 ratings
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The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
by:
Diana L. Ahmad
3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
18.
The Girl with No Face (The Daoshi Chronicles, #2)
by:
M.H. Boroson
4.30 avg rating — 748 ratings
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The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
by:
Scott Zesch
4.01 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community
by:
Yong Chen
3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920
by:
Wendy L. Rouse
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
by:
David H.T. Wong
3.67 avg rating — 277 ratings
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San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture
by:
Philip P. Choy
3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
by:
Scott D. Seligman
3.55 avg rating — 258 ratings
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The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
by:
Julia Flynn Siler
3.95 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of Their Lives
by:
Jianli Zhao
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Anti-Chinese Movement in California
by:
Elmer C. Sandmeyer
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
28.
The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration
by:
Haiming Liu
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
29.
The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White
by:
James W. Loewen
3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Learning From My Mother's Voice: Family Legend And The Chinese American Experience
by:
Jean Lau Chin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
31.
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
by:
Jennifer 8. Lee
3.69 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
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The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
by:
Mae M. Ngai
3.53 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by:
Jean Pfaelzer
3.89 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
by:
Andrew Coe
3.48 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
by:
Ronald Takaki
4.16 avg rating — 1,208 ratings
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Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants
by:
John Jung
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon
by:
Marie Rose Wong
3.89 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
by:
Patrick Radden Keefe
4.15 avg rating — 9,232 ratings
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The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo
by:
Scott D. Seligman
3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Water Ghosts
by:
Shawna Yang Ryan
3.32 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee
by:
Marissa Moss
4.06 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Two Oceans to Canton, the Story of the Old China Trade
by:
Agnes Danforth Hewes
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
40.
Beautiful Country
by:
Qian Julie Wang
4.17 avg rating — 37,470 ratings
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Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
by:
Yong Chen
3.53 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940
by:
Him Mark Lai
3.93 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South
by:
Adrienne Berard
3.77 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
by:
Graham Russell Gao Hodges
3.48 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs (The Hampton Press Communication Series)
by:
Trina Robbins
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Paper Daughter
by:
M. Elaine Mar
3.85 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity
by:
Gloria H. Chun
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
by:
Jeffrey Thomas Leong
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown
by:
Marlon K. Hom
3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Chinese Railroad Workers (First Book)
by:
Susan Sinnott
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation
by:
Paul C. Siu
4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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My Journey to Becoming Chinese American: A Memoir of an Asian American Psychologist and His Search for Ethnic Identity
by:
Shium Andrew Chen
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada (Mercury Series (0316-1854))
by:
Ban Seng Hoe
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
by:
Judy Yung
3.94 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films
by:
Arthur Dong
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
by:
Scott Tong
4.22 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York
by:
Hsiang-Shui Chen
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom
by:
Gus Lee
3.87 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.34 avg rating — 2,933 ratings
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Bamboo Women: Stories from Ming Quong, a Chinese Orphanage in California
by:
Nona Mock Wyman
3.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
by:
Tamara Venit Shelton
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the American Dream
by:
Eric Liu
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
by:
Beth Lew-Williams
4.27 avg rating — 186 ratings
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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States
by:
Haiming Liu
3.60 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
by:
John Pomfret
4.30 avg rating — 541 ratings
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Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940--1965
by:
Xiaojian Zhao
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
69.
Double Awesome Chinese Food: Irresistible and Totally Achievable Recipes from Our Chinese-American Kitchen
by:
Margaret Li
3.89 avg rating — 120 ratings
69.
This Brave New World: India, China, and the United States
by:
Anja Manuel
3.93 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Cultural Curiosity: Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese Roots
by:
Josephine M.T. Khu
3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Sweet Bamboo: A Memoir of a Chinese American Family
by:
Louise Leung Larson
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949
by:
Charlotte Brooks
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
by:
Eric Liu
3.98 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years
by:
Charlotte Brooks
4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
by:
James R. Lilley
3.83 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film
by:
Philippa Gates
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another
by:
John Paton Davies Jr.
4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey Into Power
by:
Phoebe Eng
3.91 avg rating — 97 ratings
80.
Bury My Bones in America: The Saga of a Chinese Family in California, 1852-1996 from San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines
by:
Lani Ah Tye Farkas
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
80.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
by:
John Soennichsen
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
80.
China Hand: An Autobiography (Haney Foundation Series)
by:
John Paton Davies Jr.
4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings
84.
The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese
by:
Lorraine Dong
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
84.
Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood (Knopf Cooks American)
by:
Ken Hom
4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings
84.
Smuggled Chinese
by:
Ko-Lin Chin
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
by:
Karen Ishizuka
3.99 avg rating — 173 ratings
88.
New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882
by:
John Kuo Wei Tchen
4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
88.
Powder Works: A Chinese immigrant family's life in 19th century America
by:
Ray Hosler
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
88.
Financing Illegal Migration: Chinese Underground Banks and Human Smuggling in New York City
by:
Linda Zhao
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
91.
Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities During the Exclusion Era
by:
K. Scott Wong
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
91.
Chinatowns of New York City, New York (Then and Now)
by:
Wendy Wan-Yin Tan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (American Crossroads) (Volume 52)
by:
Manu Karuka
3.92 avg rating — 116 ratings
91.
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
by:
Jeff Yang
3.71 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a History
by:
Lucy M. Cohen
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
95.
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
by:
Ronald Takaki
4.18 avg rating — 5,275 ratings
97.
Leaving Deep Water: The Lives of Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures
by:
Claire S. Chow
3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings
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City within a City: How Kids Live in New York's Chinatown
by:
Kathleen Krull
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Surviving on the Gold Mountain: A History of Chinese American Women and Their Lives
by:
Huping Ling
4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China
by:
Ed Young
3.99 avg rating — 603 ratings
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